Holy Week in Brockport

Yesterday, Palm Sunday, was the first day of what, in the Christian calendar, is called Holy Week. The story of Holy Week includes Jesus' triumphant entry into Jerusalem, the last Supper, His arrest, His Torture, crucifixion, and resurrection. It is a story which gave me nightmares as a child and still fills me with fear as a adult. What a terrible way to die.

It is a story of betrayal by one's closest friends, and the victimization by a cruel and brutal religious and political regime.

In A Course In Miracles T-6.I.9:1-9 Jesus says, "I elected, for your sake and mine, to demonstrate the most outrageous assault, as judged by the ego, does not matter. As the world judges these things, but not as God knows them, I was betrayed, abandoned, beaten, torn, and finally killed. It was clear that this was only because of the projection of others onto me, since I had not harmed anyone and had healed many."

To the cynical observer, it might occur to him, the old saying "Nice guys finish last." And to an enlightened observer, it might occur to her, as it says in ACIM, "Teach only love, for that is what you are."

It seems that the spiritually immature, hearing or reading this story, would see fear, sacrifice, and deceit, whereas the spiritually mature would see love, forgiveness, and truth.

We come to this earth to help our fellow human beings achieve the Atonement, At-one-ment, and it is the failure to master our fears that block our ability to enter into the Kingdom, to achieve enlightenment. The means to finding love and mastering our fear is forgiveness.

Can the slumlord dissolutionists forgive the Brockport Police and Pro-Brockport? Can the Brockport Police and Pro-Brockport forgive the slumlord dissolutionists? Jesus, our brother, says, as they are killing him on the cross, "Father, forgive them for they know not what they do." It takes a big person to rise above attack and forgive his/her attacker, but it is in this forgiveness that we arrive at a place of love and peace.

Jesus went through his torture and crucifixion to demonstrate that the physical body and the ego doesn't matter, because in the end, love is all there is. It is this insight, this awareness, that resurrects the human spirit and makes us whole, Holy.

May you have a blessed Holy Week in Brockport and around the world.