awakened to cheers
after years at the faultline The holy Gospel according to St. Mark (11:1-11) ! Well, this isn’t the Palm Sunday we planned for, is it? And it is most certainly not the Palm Sunday we wanted , either. …No, we wanted the Palm Sunday with the kiddos leading the procession, and the piano leading “All Glory, Laud and Honor” as we marched in to the sanctuary waving our palms. But this year there will be none of that. There will be less glory , laud and honor this Palm Sunday. Won’t there? There are only four of us on this side of worship. And the real worship, when you participate at home, will be whatever you can cobble together. It’s not the same. Is it? No, this Palm Sunday is not the one we wanted. This year there will be sorrow , disappointment and frustration mixed with our glory, laud and honor. …So it is something of an irony that this year, due to logistics, the only way to put this service together was to have a strict Palm Sund...