Holy Week - the Garden of Gethsemane

It is a different kind of Holy Week this year with the Covid 19 pandemic restricting us all to our homes. We are learning how to do life differently, church differently, but God is still the same.  He is our refuge and strength.  A refuge needed like at no other time.

Originally I was to paint a large water color of the Garden of Gethsemane  as folks journeyed the last steps of Jesus through the stations of the cross created in our church.  This painting was a small scale piece of what I would have painted, sharing my own experience in the garden among these ancient olive trees on a pilgrimage in 2009.

Jesus asked His Father “if possible remove this cup...but not my will, thy will be done.”

A very fitting prayer for these days of rampant sickness.

God have Mercy.

Nothing can separate us from the love of God  as Paul said “neither death nor life, neither angels or demons, neither the present or the future, nor any powers, neither height or depth, nor anyting else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.”  Romans 8:38,39