Business as usual (Days two and three of a Holy Week Journal)

What happens during Holy Week?  

Until five years ago, when I was one of the many who were "stuck" at home, I don't think I had given much thought to what went on between that day when Jesus was honored with a chorus of Hosannas and a palm-laden path and the events that led to His crucifixion and resurrection.  

And full disclosure, I only wondered that as I pondered what to write in my journal. So I was curious I might learn when I saw those five words:  What happens during Holy Week?

I anxiously opened the story, hoping to find answers to a question I didn't really know I had.

One interesting tidbit: The words "Holy Monday" and "Holy Tuesday" were used to describe the early days of the week. I hadn't seen them before. They are terms used in the 21st Century. I still wonder what Jesus's followers did in those days.

One source (Christianity.com) says that Jesus taught His followers the importance of forgiving one another.

So, for Jesus and His disciples, it was the same as any other day.  

He knew what lay ahead, which also meant the disciples would experience fear, anger, and grief at the hands of religious leaders and even one of their own.  

And so, He taught them.

For Jesus, it was simply

Business as usual. 

And for His followers -- it was better, I think, that they did not know what was going to happen.

As Paul Harvey would say, there would be the REST of the STORY.

           May you have enough sunshine in your life to make you appreciate the shadows