Tuesday – 7th Week of Easter

Gospel – John 17:1-11

Time’s Up!

The Upper Room, Jerusalem

Well, it finally happened.  THAT day has arrived!  Yesterday our daughter, son-in-law and 2 grandsons moved into their new home.  What was once a 17 mile drive for us has now turned into 550 miles as they settle into their home 3 states away.  It’s not like we didn’t know.  They had been talking about it for a couple of years.  Even in the last 8 months or so, when they started hitting open houses and massively de-cluttering their house, it still didn’t feel real.  Even when they went through the process of bidding on a house and putting theirs up for sale, even when they went through inspections and hiring movers, even when the furniture arrived on Saturday and the family finally locked the doors on the old house for the last time, it still happened way too fast.  From sad endings come new, bright and hopeful beginnings!

There are plenty of future events we all either look forward to or dread.  We hope we have more time; we wish time would stop or at least pause a bit for us to fully prepare ourselves.  But life goes on; time goes on.  And we have to deal with it.  Whether we like it or not, we have to prepare!

We have heard this same Gospel just a few days ago.  Jesus, at the Last Supper in the Upper Room, tells His disciples that the ‘hour has come’. Throughout the Gospels, He has warned them that the ‘hour is COMING’.  But now it is here!  He will be betrayed, arrested, scourged, condemned and put to death.  Jesus’ hour has come, the time to glorify God His Father, to accomplish the work He was given, to give eternal life to all who believe. 

So my question today is simple!  The (our) hour is coming!  Are we in denial?  Are we hoping we have more time?  Are we ready?  Are we prepared?   

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