Last year, I was asked to write a sharing for today's reading for the In His Steps Journal:
APRIL 10, FRIDAY [JOHN 18:1 - 19:42]
For me, it's not hard to feel emotional when I read the Bible. In reflecting on Jesus' story of His passion and death, I feel the overwhelming power of His unconditional love for us. It never seizes to amaze me how He could suffer all that He'd been through for us. To add insult to injury, He also had to be betrayed and denied by His friends during His low moments. That must have been so hard for Him.
Just like in Jesus' case, I have experienced, and still experience being hurt by the people I love - my friends as well as my family. May it be due to pettiness, insensitivities, or clashing mood swings, it feels really bad when these 'dramas' happen. It makes me wonder why I have to feel so much pain from them.
But I learned, and am constantly being reminded, that these hurtful things are there so that I can have the opportunity to feel what Jesus felt - to get to the point where I can express my unconditional love for my friends and family.
I do hope I can keep on trying to love like Jesus. When faced with the different 'dramas' in my life, all I really want to do is turn to Him and find the strength to follow His great example of unconditional love.
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it's hard to accept harsh realities. no matter. life (and love) goes on. i thank God for that.
