PRUMC Devotions

Many people spread their cloaks on the road, and other spread leafy branches that they had cut in the fields. Then those who went ahead and those who followed were shouting, “Hosanna! Blessed is the one who comes in the name of the Lord!”. Mark 11:8-9

Hosanna in the highest,

We prepare a place for you. Today we celebrate your arrival in Jerusalem. We celebrate because you upset the ways of the world.

The world expected you to come as a king, as one with political and military rule. The world expected you to come and solve problems with a sword; to dine with princes and priests; to accumulate wealth and land.

And yet here you come, startling our expectations. Surprising us with love far greater than we could ever anticipate.

Because you come as one on a lowly animal. You come as one who ate with sinners and tax collectors and prostitutes. You proclaimed favor on the poor, the prisoner, the sick. You concerned yourself with peace and reconciliation, though this did not confer power upon you.

Blessed is this one, we cry. Blessed is this one.

Blessed be your holy and unsettling and subversive ways.

With blessings we offer,

Amen.

Kate Floyd