bypassing the scandal...

this morning, i drove around downtown austin- specifically a circle between the blocks of 7th and 10th- numerous times...until finally, i found the right place to put the jeep...

as i walked brazos to get to the intended building of my pursuit, i was aware of what historically today suggests...as i entered the building, there was bustle and there were children holding palm branches and waving them as they imagined themselves looking at a man riding through the crowd on a donkey...

the first words i heard today were- deliberatly diverse, intentionally inclusive...immediately i felt a peace- a peace in which i have been in search of when i enter buildings such as these...

there were all colors of people, all ages of people- they were mixed about in their seats and there were looks of genuineness all around...the building itself was colorful-comfortable-buzzing voices of sincerity...

the room in which i sat was big, and there echoed the babbling of small children...many times in buildings such as these, these babbling voices are ignored or at worst, cause a sense of anxiety for those who simply wish for it to be a quiet, reverent place...but not in this room, the babbling voices were attended to...the crowd responded to the small talk and found joy in it...i was overwhelmed...

the word i heard today was filling...that in our lives we seek the glory- not the humiliation...that in our humanity, we want to bypass the scandal of this historical week and go straight to the glory...i must admit, these past few weeks i have been contemplating the relevence of those two, big pieces of wood that were nailed together in a such a fashion that it readily foreshadowed a fate for the man named jesus...i think i have been bypassing the scandal of it all...

i love days when you set out to experience something and the expereience itself comes to abide within you...this is certainly one of those situations in my life where the smallest detail of children babbling and a few words, precisely strung together have impacted my greater picture of life...