I am safe in a garden of divine love.
In
the Christian calendar, Maundy Thursday commemorates the night Jesus
shared a final meal with his beloved students then went to pray alone in
the Garden of Gethsemane, anticipating arrest. In his humanity,
Jesus must have felt afraid, perhaps angry at being betrayed, or
disappointed his disciples could not stay awake with him. But in his
divinity, he knew he could never be alone or harmed. “Not my will but
thine be done,” he prayed. He surrendered to a larger purpose. In
my darkest hours, I remember I, too, am never alone, and I offer myself
to be used for some larger purpose. I am safe in a garden of divine
love, strength, power, and wisdom—the garden of God within me.
“My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass from me; yet not what I want but what you want.”—Matthew 26:39
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