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I’d Rather Not

HOLY WEEK MEDITATION FOR PASTORS

Of all the places I’ve never been, none is so vivid in my imagination as the Garden of Gethsemane.  I know people who’ve actually been there and have tried to describe it to me, but I’ve never been.  Perhaps one day I’ll go.  I’ll save some nickels, or perhaps round up some church members and lead a junket to the Holy Land, and I’ll get to Jerusalem and I’ll walk right up there with the guide and I’ll see the place.  If I’m ever able to do that I suppose my imagination will need to yield itself to the facts about Gethsemane, and that will be alright.  But as it stands right now, Gethsemane is for me an inward place, a spiritual place, a place where truths are revealed and where faith is tried and proved.

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