{"id":4074,"date":"2024-05-10T05:36:39","date_gmt":"2024-05-10T05:36:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/?p=4074"},"modified":"2024-05-10T05:36:40","modified_gmt":"2024-05-10T05:36:40","slug":"friday-sixth-week-of-easter-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/?p=4074","title":{"rendered":"Friday, Sixth Week of Easter"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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John 16:20-23 <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

You are sad now,
but I shall see you again,
and your hearts will be full of joy,
and that joy no one shall take from you.
When that day comes,
you will not ask me any questions.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

When Jesus speaks to the disciples about \u2018a joy that no one shall take\u2019 from them, I wonder how they understood it? John sets this lengthy discourse around the table of their last meal together. They have already shared together the \u2018bread of affliction\u2019 and Jesus now asks them to imagine a time when their hearts will be full of joy. I imagine the disciples in a haze that night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Often when people warn us that something it going to be really hard it can be difficult for us hear them. I have certainly imagined certain situations to be much worse than they actually were. It\u2019s a lot more subtle when people talk to us about joy. Real joy is something very personal. Though I have chosen a picture today of a girl jumping, my own experience of joy is much quieter. It has something to do with integration, with all the parts of my life fitting together. It\u2019s not the absence of suffering. It\u2019s more a feeling that joy and suffering can stand side by side.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If Christ is our pattern for life, love and glory, then joy and sorrow will always be woven together.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How do you hear Christ\u2019s promise?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

John 16:20-23  You are sad now,but I shall see you again,and your hearts will be full of joy,and that joy no one shall take from you.When that day comes,you will not ask me any questions. When Jesus speaks to the disciples about \u2018a joy that no one shall take\u2019 from them, I wonder how they … <\/p>\n

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