Today is the start of Holy Week. Every year, this week is full to the brim of tension, fear, suffering and somehow also beauty. And the start of it is this Palm Sunday procession. Jesus needs help from His disciples to organize His own parody of the Roman processional parade into Jerusalem. His followers celebrate and it is a parade of joy, but for Jesus, it is a parade of protest. Jesus knew that this cheering crowd would soon turn into a clamoring mob. And He needed His people to go to the rest of the way. He cannot do it alone. Even Jesus Himself needed other human beings in order to complete His journey. What does it mean for our “good enough” journeys that we need each other? That we are a group project?
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