{"id":46977,"date":"2019-04-18T14:55:44","date_gmt":"2019-04-18T19:55:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/?p=46977"},"modified":"2019-04-23T06:50:40","modified_gmt":"2019-04-23T11:50:40","slug":"savoring-gethsemane-places","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/2019\/04\/18\/savoring-gethsemane-places\/","title":{"rendered":"Savoring Gethsemane Places"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/thorns-and-blossoms-Sheila-Hunter-1-600x400-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-47087\" srcset=\"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/thorns-and-blossoms-Sheila-Hunter-1-600x400-1.jpg 600w, https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/thorns-and-blossoms-Sheila-Hunter-1-600x400-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/thorns-and-blossoms-Sheila-Hunter-1-600x400-1-420x280.jpg 420w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Based on Mark 14:32-42; photo credit: Sheila G. Hunter, used by permission.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>they went out to the place of olives<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>where wind-wearied trees <br>bear bitter-hard fruit&#8211;<br>flesh crushed, pressed, poured out<br>until savory, saving <br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>balm for broken bodies <br>light for tenebrous tabernacles <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>                  \u201cMy soul is sorrowful unto death.\u201d<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>they went out to the place of olives <br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>where fickle sleep <br>betrays with <br>beguiling lullabies<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>                   \u201cCouldn\u2019t you keep watch\u201d <br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>they went out to the place of olives<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>where the (w)holy human one <br>whispers up through ancient branches<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>                    \u201cLet this cup pass from me\u201d<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>crushed, pressed, poured out <br>savory saving salve of gilead<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>                      \u201cYour will be done.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She stayed up all night on the eve of Samuel\u2019s birth. She wanted to see him into the world. Hear his borning cry. Peer into his face as he opened his eyes for the first time. She kept vigil for him then\u2014still does sometimes\u2014as though her sleeplessness might serve as some sort of down payment on his safe slumber in a world gone crazy. <br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When have you kept watch? Thought that if you could just keep your eyes open, the dreaded thing would not, could not, happen?<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Maybe you have sat vigil as a beloved one neared death. Or perhaps you have stood in the streets through the night to preach or protest with your candlelit presence.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jesus asked them to keep vigil while he prayed. But they just couldn\u2019t do it. It can be hard to stay awake to someone else\u2019s Gethsemane. It can be hard to stay awake to approaching death. To humanity\u2019s horrors. To injustices that never seem to end. It can be hard even to stay awake to the wounds of our own lives. <br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And yet, life brings us to vigil-keeping places. Not just once or twice but often. Life brings us to places where all we can do is be near. Wait. Stay with. Even unto death. <br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That is where life took them\u2014Jesus and the disciples\u2014that night. The Gospel writer paints the picture. Jesus throws himself onto Gethsemane ground. He soul-searches. Pleads. Weeps. Surrenders. Jesus faces his humanity. His mortality. No triumphalism. No facade of power. He prays as humans pray, hoping beyond hope. And that makes Gethsemane a painful place for Jesus and for his closest disciples\u2014believers, even\u2014who just couldn\u2019t keep their eyes open, just couldn\u2019t stay awake to the inhumane humanity of it all.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yes, Gethsemane wakes up pain, but Gethsemane also births bittersweet beauty. It is a garden after all. A place that cultivates creation\u2019s creative cycle. Birth, death, decay, rebirth, growth again. Gethsemane is intimate with these garden rhythms. You see, olives are birthed by wind-gnarled trees who persevere season after season, year after year. Olives from those trees&#8211;crushed and pressed&#8211;become savory oil enlivening sun-warmed tomatoes, salving oil rubbed into broken bodies, anointing oil crossed onto baptized foreheads. The word \u201cGethsemane\u201d means \u201coil press.\u201d Gethsemane midwifes agony. Gethsemane also midwifes the balm of Gilead. &nbsp;<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This, I think, is one of the ways God calls to us in this Holy Week story. Mark won\u2019t let us see Gethsemane as a place isolated to a particular time or person. No, Gethsemane is each and all of us. Gethsemane is life itself. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gethsemane is gunshots in a high school and economic devastation in Venezuela.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gethsemane is Flint and Ferguson and every fight we take up against racism. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gethsemane is three churches in Louisiana and Notre-Dame de Paris.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gethsemane is Mother Emmanuel and Moral Mondays.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gethsemane is a hospice bedside. A cold prison cell. A breakfast table with no food.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gethsemane is a lifetime of struggles against injustices of all kinds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gethsemane is us. Gethsemane is the town or city where we live. Gethsemane is life itself. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jesus stays in Gethsemane. Through the pain. Through the doubts. He doesn\u2019t run away. He stays with what he believes to be true about his life and about God in his life even though living what he believes leads to his death. And by staying in Gethsemane until his hour comes, he becomes fully himself&#8211;the anointed one who anoints death with life. <br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We gather around a table this week as Jesus did with his disciples on that Passover night. God\u2019s call to us today is not unlike God\u2019s call to them. When the bread has been broken. Blessed. Eaten. The cup poured out. Then\u2014God calls us to go out. Into places where souls are being crushed. Into places where lives are being pressed. Into places that steal people\u2019s dignity and do violence to hopes and dreams. God calls us to go out to Gethsemane. Then\u2014by God\u2019s grace as revealed through Jesus\u2014here and there, now and then, we wake up to the truth of life and faith and become fully ourselves&#8211;the body of Christ. The balm of Gilead. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>May God&#8217;s will be done in our lives. Amen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gethsemane midwifes agony. 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