This is Palm
Sunday, the celebration of victory, and the
acceptance of the truth.
Let us not spend this holy week
brooding on the crucifixion of God’s Son, but happily in the
celebration of his release.
For Easter is the sign of peace, not
pain. A slain Christ has no meaning. But a RISEN Christ becomes the
symbol of the Son of God’s forgiveness upon himself; the sign he
looks upon himself as healed and whole.
This week begins with palms and ends
with lilies, the white and holy sign the Son of God is innocent. Let
no dark signs of crucifixion intervene between the journey and its
purpose; between the acceptance of the truth and its expression.
Holy Week
This week we celebrate eternal life, not death. And we honor the
perfect purity of the Son of God, and not his sins. Offer each other
the gift of lilies, not the crown of thorns; the gift of love, and not
the “gift” of fear.
You stand beside each other, thorns in
one hand and lilies in the other, uncertain which to give. Join now
with me, and throw away the thorns, offering the lilies to replace
them.
This Easter I would have the gift of
your forgiveness, offered by you to me, and returned by me to you. We
CANNOT be united in crucifixion and in death. Nor can the resurrection
be complete ‘til your forgiveness rests on Christ, along with mine.
A week is short, and yet this holy week
is the symbol of the whole journey that the Son of God has undertaken.
He started with the sign of victory, the promise of the resurrection,
already given him.
Let him not wander into the temptation
of crucifixion, and delay him there. Help him go in peace beyond it,
with the light of his own innocence lighting his way to his redemption
and release.
Hold him not back with thorns and
nails, when his redemption is so near. But let the whiteness of your
shining gift of lilies speed him on his way to resurrection.
Easter is not the celebration of the
COST of sin, but of it’s END. If you see glimpses of the face of
Christ behind the veil, looking between the snow white petals of the
lilies you have received and given as your gift, you will behold each
other’s face and RECOGNIZE it.
I was a stranger, and you took me in,
not knowing who I was. But, for your gift of lilies, you WILL know. In
your forgiveness of this stranger, alien to you and yet your ancient
Friend, lie his release, and your redemption with him.
The time of Easter is a time of joy,
and not of mourning. Look on your risen Friend, and celebrate his
holiness, along with me. For Easter is the time of YOUR salvation,
along with mine.
~Jesus Christ~
A Course In Miracles
Chapter 20
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