Today is Holy Thursday and I am stuck at school until late tonight and might end up missing Mass. Growing up looked like so much more fun when I was six. Limousines and fancy dresses and big tall heels and fancy hair and make-up. Ya, growing up held much more appeal when I was six then it does today. Today growing up means working and missing important events because I absolutely cannot miss class and T-Shirt, jeans, boots, and messy hair days. It means that money does not grow on a tree and it must be earned because I need gas for my vehicle this week, but I also need food.
It means that yes, I am going to miss Mass and I am just going to have to spend some time in adoration, that seems to be where God thinks I need to be tonight so I will be there. It means all of the above and then some. It means learning to trust again, to trust completely and totally like a child. To let God have the reigns and like the apostles tonight when they begin to realize that something is going to happen and it is not what they want to happen. And they have to trust that is all going according to plan.
That tomorrow is going to be harder than anything they have ever had to deal with but it is all apart of the plan. That it is not going to be okay but it is a part of that great big master plan.
Tonight we kick off the Paschal Triduum and slowly allow ourselves to come into the solemnity and solitude of Good Friday. Here's to Holy Thursday and quiet. Quiet to begin to contemplate the greatest sacrifice in the world.
I pray for everyone especially during the next few days as we enter into the greatest and most awesome (in every sense of both words) time of the year, the Paschal Triduum.
Peace,
Arwen
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