At times, I have wondered how I would have held up on a Holy Thursday night in the Garden of Gethesmane. Would I have stayed awake? Been present, prayerfully attendant, supportive? Alert? Or would I have dozed off like everyone else....... as I can sooooooo easily do. (OK, you can stop your knowing laugh. Haha.) Ever wonder that yourself?
I spent at least two hours here today looking, reflecting. Then wandering to the western edge of the Garden and looking up just a few hundred feet across the valley to the walls of Jerusalem, the same sight Jesus must have had in his view that night. Then staring back at this tiny garden area. Imagining.
I think I have been to a pretty good number of places in my life. For me, this is an incredible place, in the scheme of all of the world's "places". I can't think of any place I've been that tops it. None at all.
Amazing.
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