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\\u25fc\\ufe0eJourney Stations of the Cross: Sunday, March 21 \\u2013 Sunday, April 4 \\u25fc\\ufe0e

Our Stations of the Cross experience will take us on a journey following the footsteps of Christ, immersing us in the biblical account of the last hours and days of Jesus' life. Take a few minutes each day to watch a short video and to respond and reflect. Connect with Jesus and prepare your heart as we head into Good Friday and Easter.

The following is the script from the video. You may also follow along using the downloadable reflection booklet.

\\u25fc\\ufe0e Station 13: Darkness\\u25fc\\ufe0e
Jesus Dies on the Cross
Luke 23:44\\u201346

Supplies: Paper, pen or pencil

It was now about noon, and darkness came over the whole land until three in the afternoon, while the sun\\u2019s light failed; and the curtain of the temple was torn in two. Then Jesus, crying with a loud voice, said, \\u201cFather, into your hands I commend my spirit.\\u201d Having said this, he breathed his last.
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Darkness fell over the land, like a covering.
Like the curtain in the Temple was a covering.

In the hardest times, like when Jesus is on the cross, and in the most sacred spaces, like the Holy of Holies in the Temple, reality is sometimes obscured.
Clarity is sometimes sacrificed.
Darkness makes space for the unknown: a sometimes beautiful, sometimes terrible allowance.
When the Temple curtain is torn, when that covering rips in two, the notion that God could be contained there was challenged.

The holy space the curtain had concealed, had kept in darkness, was suddenly revealed.
We can never build anything\\u2014in our structures or our hearts\\u2014that keeps God from reaching us.

On a piece of paper, write down what seems to separate you from God.
Maybe you\\u2019ll write thoughts, emotions, habits, convictions.
Maybe for you there\\u2019s just one thing; maybe there\\u2019s a long list. Whatever it is, take this time to write it down.

When you\\u2019re ready, rip it up.

You can make one big tear, like the story tells us about the Temple curtain. Or you can tear your paper into lots of tiny pieces.

Let the tearing be a denial of artificial boundaries and an affirmation of God\\u2019s ever-presence: behind a curtain, on a cross, in the darkness\\u2014

God is always with us.