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Good Friday reflection:<\/strong> \u00a0 With Easter weekend upon us, I recall the many conversations I have had with people around the country about letting go to the will of God. I often share that I am inspired by the witness of Christ\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s struggle in the garden. Christ knew the climax of His mission was upon Him, this was what He was born for. Yet in His humanity, he struggled to say yes, not once, but three times. \u00a0 I note also that it was not until after abandoning himself to the will of God that He was comforted and strengthened by an angel, and undoubtedly by grace. \u00a0 How often I have said \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcyes\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 not knowing how I could possibly undertake the task — only to discover that graces follow. Let our Easter be a call to the garden. Trusting in grace, let us abandon our lives to His will, not our own. For instance, as we continue to see nuclear proliferation (not least of all in our own country), let us abandon our own fear and insecurity to work unceasingly for peace. As we see another year of starvation in many parts of the world, let us abandon our greed \u00a0and \u00a0provide \u00a0just distribution of land ownership and wealth. As we see another child killed in the womb, let us abandon the fear of opening our homes to women in crisis pregnancies. \u00a0 Then shall we see death to our old self, and \u00e2\u20ac\u0153resurrection\u00e2\u20ac\u009d to the new. \u00a0 –Liz<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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