Just another Monday. It’s so tempting to ‘move on’ from Lent and Holy Week. But that to me would be religion. A meaningless habit aimed to impress others and earn ‘brownie points’ with God. Yet I chose to see it as a spiritual chance to reboot and refresh my relationship with God. What I have discovered and rediscovered during this …

It’s Sunday. If there has ever been a comeback, this is it. When all the dreams seemed shattered and all the hopes dashed — it happened. Not even the most optimistic of followers expected it. And many didn’t believe it. It was THAT good! The unlikely heroes are in fact the usual suspects. Someone like Mary, the poster girl for …

It’s Saturday. It’s very quiet. The quietness of broken dreams. The quietness of grief and loss. The quietness in which you can only hear the sighs and see the tears. It’s all gone wrong. You know that maddening quietness that occurs after a sudden diagnosis, after a loss or breakup — as you’re almost too confused and shocked to even …

It’s Friday. This is the day with the paradoxical name. Good Friday. But at first glance, it was anything but good. Jesus is betrayed and arrested, tortured, humiliated, betrayed again, wrongly accused and crucified. Everything screams ‘injustice!’. The supporters who seemed to vanish. The blind Jewish religious elite who seemed determined to eradicate the heresy of His teaching. The Romans …

It’s Thursday. What would you do in the last day before your execution? Do something selfish? Be with those whom you love? Hide away? If yesterday seemed like a slow day, today it really picks up pace. Jesus seems to focus on spending with the disciples, not for His encouragement but for their edification. He distills the essentials. His sacrificial …

It’s Wednesday. After the avalanche of emotions and conflicts, this feels like a quiet day. After resting in Bethany, Jesus comes back into Jerusalem in the Temple complex, continuing to teach. To the naive onlooker it seems like a victory. But little do they know… The plot is in full flow and the dice has been rolled. His demise at …