Sunday, April 13, 2025
Sunday Reflection: Palm Sunday v. Palm Beach Sunday
Today we read this in Luke 19:
36As he rode along, people kept spreading their cloaks on the road. 37As he was now approaching the path down from the Mount of Olives, the whole multitude of the disciples began to praise God joyfully with a loud voice for all the deeds of power that they had seen, 38saying, “Blessed is the king who comes in the name of the Lord! Peace in heaven, and glory in the highest heaven!” 39Some of the Pharisees in the crowd said to him, “Teacher, order your disciples to stop.” 40He answered, “I tell you, if these were silent, the stones would shout out.”
It's the end part that strikes me. The disciples were telling a truth with their words. The government tried to tell them to stop, but Jesus made something important clear: that the truth will always come out.
We are entering a time when it seems there are some truths that are not supposed to be said out loud by law firms or students or by government workers: about the continuing racial bias in our country, about the value of immigrants, about the needs of people who have the least among us.
But those truths will come out; that is the way of God's world.
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