Holy Thursday

The washing of the feet at our Lords' supper is the example of being human that we need to follow.  Using our mind to shed the "either-or" thinking and to explore and incorporate, and to eventually live by, non-dual thinking.  

It's not our fault, in so far as we are equipped with and taught the very basics as children.  We isolate into common groups, sports teams, pattern identification in school testing, it all became the system in which we operate with. 

Jesus came to show us that we can use another way to bring the Kingdom to us here.   It requires us to be empathetic, understanding, courageous, inclusive, and a person of action.

Washing the feet opens the door to a new way of thinking.  Serve, lead, work with, incorporate and include, advance the meaning and reason for the law.  It says that "I share in your life"  "We are equal"

Remember that the example of Christ and our response will shape the future and build a better world.

My brothers, "Be still" 

It Was Night

Reflection Holy Thursday 2016

The night is tense and filled with rituals  remembering Moses and Aaron and the Passover instructions, and John the Baptist already set up the night when he called Jesus “the Lamb of God” reflecting the first Passover meal and connecting it to this night.

Jesus, knowing His hour had come, breaks from the tradition.  There is something new here.  Jesus takes off His outer garments and very deliberately takes each disciple’s foot and washes them.

“He rose from supper and took off his outer garments. He took a towel and tied it around his waist.  Then he poured water into a basin and began to wash the disciples’ feet and dry them with the towel around his waist.” John 13:4,5

After Peter contested this and very honestly tells Jesus that he will always be there to support Him, Jesus, tells of a betrayal using familiar words from a psalm of David.

           

“He who shares my table takes advantage of me.” John 13:18

Jesus doesn’t reveal the betrayer in front of the others and Judas now realizes that Christ will remain silent.  There is only instruction from Jesus to Judas.

“What you are going to do, do quickly.” John 13:28 29

It was night.