In the Garden With Jesus - a Lent Journey for TeensSample

Jesus’ life, my life

Complete the following sentence: “For me, life is like…”

Like what? Like a fight, an exam, a thriller… what is it like for you? We all have symbols, images, and metaphors with which we live.

Are you aware of the images with which you live? It’s very important to connect with that, because it gives us words for how we experience life, glasses through which we view life. If you say, “Life is like an exam,” you will interpret everything that happens to you as experiences of exams.

Jesus knew the symbols He lived with, and He shares it with us. One of these symbols is a cup. The metaphor is that life is like a cup that is given to you. That cup is filled and must be drunk.

This week we journey with the Jesus who views the cup of His own life. He invites us to follow Him and look at the cup with Him, to take it up and to drink from it. Not only His cup, but also the cup of our own lives.

Prayer:

I ask for a deep consciousness of Your love and work in my life.