Waiting in the silence for Sunday

The Journey:Daily Meditations for Lent, John Pritchard, 2014

‘It’s Friday but Sunday’s coming!’ It’s all over social media today. It’s Good Friday, I get it. Of course I do. Don’t worry, this is not the end. We know what’s going to happen. We've read the last page, the ending is amazing and we’re going to cry tears of joy, not grief. Hold on because Sunday is coming!

Judas, Bonhoeffer and Jesus

Sometimes you read a book and you know that it is going to stay with you for a long time.

This is one of them. It goes on the list of ‘books well worth making the effort for’.

I don’t know anything about Eric Metaxas the author, apart from he’s American, and he’s a writer (although a cursory glance at his website says he has other strings to his bow) but it’s not Metaxas I’m interested in, it’s Dietrich Bonhoeffer.

Being Disciples

During Lent this year, I’ve been reading The Journey by John Pritchard. Written imaginatively from the perspective of John, you travel with Jesus and the disciples as they journey throughout Galilee, and of course they will eventually make their way towards Jerusalem where the story will take its horrifying turn which distresses and saddens us even though we know the ending. 

Every day you pick up the book, you are simply walking with the disciples. It’s not offering profound and deep insights or detailed commentary on Luke’s gospel, it’s just waking up morning after morning and seeing what happens on the journey with Jesus. The conversations, the stories, the people, the miracles, the debates, the emotions, all while we are walking. We go here today, we eat with these people this evening and we lie down to sleep in this place tonight.