This week is the holy week. In Spanish we know this week as “the main week” or “la semana mayor” this mean that is one of the most important weeks of the years, because is the week that we get to remain that Jesus die for us in the cross to the forgiveness our sins. When I was young this week was the most “boring” week for me because we do not have classes, but we don’t get to play or have fun at all. We use to stay at the house the whole day doing nothing. From Wednesday we cannot eat any meat at all, and on Friday the worse day because on TV they only pass very old religion movies. My mom use to go to church to hear the 7 words that Jesus said on the cross. We never went to one of those talks because they were very long and “boring” for us so we stay at home doing nothing.
Still, I never been in one of those talk, but I am going to dedicate this week to those 7 words that Jesus said on the cross, and how I sees them.
The fist words “Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they do." Luke 23:34 How many times we do things without putting attention of what we are doing. How many times we hurt someone because of an action that we do not like, but the person did not know what she or he was doing. Yesterday, my nice ask me to teach her how to drive. She is having troubles to find who would have the patient to teach her, a teenager that laugh about everything and anything, and she still think that life is “pink” We get in my car and I ask her if she had try to drive before, she did not know even to answer that question! I tell her the basic, what the letter means, which pedal is the break and which is the gas, also I tell her that she need to use only one foot to drive. I could see that she did not have a clue of what she was getting in too. When she starts driving my car I start feeling sorry for my car! She stops suddenly without reason, and couple of times she was about the hit the mailbox of the couple of houses. I could not be mad at her or scream at her because she really did not know what she was doing. I instead fill myself of lot of patient and courage (that she not crashes my car!! My insurance already is high!!!). At the end she did fairly well even that she goes in reverse without looking back!
The second words "Truly, I say to you, today you will be with me in Paradise." Luke 23:43. For me this words represent faith and forgiveness. Faith because the criminal even that he knows that he have been doing wrong things he have faith in Jesus and ask him for forgiveness and redemption. Do you have faith in you? In God? I was talking this week with my BF he was telling me something about he knows that is wrong to do it but he thinks that is the way he is and he can’t change that way that he is. I tell him that he needs to have more faith in him. Jesus die in the cross for us and for the forgiveness of our sins. We already are forgiven. Why we insist in drag our mistakes again and again? If you know that you are doing something that is not correct you need to stop and start thinking in some improvement in your self. God is here with you. Anyways think about what do you have to lose and what do you have to gain if you improve what you know is not the right thing?
Big Hug,
MRM
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