Station of the Cross Three 2023
Allie Senyard and Larisa Shaterian, Seminarians
Holy Apostles Episcopal Church, Good Friday 2023
The Stations of the Cross
The Third Station: Jesus Falls the First Time.
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The Third Station: Jesus Falls the First Time.
Jesus breathed in.
Breathe in.
Breathe out.
The weight is unbearable. Jesus falls under it. How could he enter our lives completely without surrendering to the crushing weight of the life of so many on this earth! He lays on the ground and knows the experience of weakness beneath unfair burdens. He feels the powerlessness of wondering if he will ever be able to continue. He is pulled up and made to continue.
I suppose, in the extremes when I’m either very quiet and calm and serene and all is well with the world, or I’m under extreme stress either because I am overwhelmed with the situation that I’m in or I am really pushing myself that either through exercise or whatever. So those are the two you know two ends of the spectrum where I am very aware. Those are the times when you’re aware that you’re alive or you know everything is either just as melted away and it’s just you and the universe or everything is pin point sort of honed your body is really really really focused on what you’re doing and what is going on around you.
Yeah, so those are the times when I notice that I’m breathing. Noticing other people’s breathing, (chuckles) I would say in the same sort of instances usually I notice people’s breathing cause I work with people in more of an office setting where people are trying to bat around ideas and they’re going this way and that way so their breathing is usually a sign of exasperation or stress or sometimes humor, you could say guffawing or hahawing or things like that or a kind of breath, you have to use breath to vocalize. So that’s the times when I really notice other people’s. It’s obviously, it’s a main way we express our emotion, especially with what’s bubbling up to the surface right at the moment even if we try to put on a poker face we’re usually going to have a tell and it may be a chuckle or a whoah or a whatever. Or maybe I’m projecting because that’s what I do; I am a person that does that quite a bit; I let off that steam immediately and then it’s gone. So yeah.
Breathe in.
Breathe out.
Jesus breathed out.
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