1.0Open Hands and Surrendered Hearthttps://blogs.covchurch.org/nahnychukrich600338<blockquote class="wp-embedded-content" data-secret="ysBMBup0Qk"><a href="https://blogs.covchurch.org/nahnychuk/2018/03/12/jesus-gethsemane-place-extreme-pressure-darkness/">Jesus in Gethsemane – A place of EXTREME Pressure and Darkness</a></blockquote><iframe sandbox="allow-scripts" security="restricted" src="https://blogs.covchurch.org/nahnychuk/2018/03/12/jesus-gethsemane-place-extreme-pressure-darkness/embed/#?secret=ysBMBup0Qk" width="600" height="338" title="“Jesus in Gethsemane – A place of EXTREME Pressure and Darkness” — Open Hands and Surrendered Heart" data-secret="ysBMBup0Qk" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" class="wp-embedded-content"></iframe><script> /*! This file is auto-generated */ !function(d,l){"use strict";l.querySelector&&d.addEventListener&&"undefined"!=typeof URL&&(d.wp=d.wp||{},d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage||(d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage=function(e){var t=e.data;if((t||t.secret||t.message||t.value)&&!/[^a-zA-Z0-9]/.test(t.secret)){for(var s,r,n,a=l.querySelectorAll('iframe[data-secret="'+t.secret+'"]'),o=l.querySelectorAll('blockquote[data-secret="'+t.secret+'"]'),c=new RegExp("^https?:$","i"),i=0;i<o.length;i++)o[i].style.display="none";for(i=0;i<a.length;i++)s=a[i],e.source===s.contentWindow&&(s.removeAttribute("style"),"height"===t.message?(1e3<(r=parseInt(t.value,10))?r=1e3:~~r<200&&(r=200),s.height=r):"link"===t.message&&(r=new URL(s.getAttribute("src")),n=new URL(t.value),c.test(n.protocol))&&n.host===r.host&&l.activeElement===s&&(d.top.location.href=t.value))}},d.addEventListener("message",d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage,!1),l.addEventListener("DOMContentLoaded",function(){for(var e,t,s=l.querySelectorAll("iframe.wp-embedded-content"),r=0;r<s.length;r++)(t=(e=s[r]).getAttribute("data-secret"))||(t=Math.random().toString(36).substring(2,12),e.src+="#?secret="+t,e.setAttribute("data-secret",t)),e.contentWindow.postMessage({message:"ready",secret:t},"*")},!1)))}(window,document); //# sourceURL=https://blogs.covchurch.org/nahnychuk/wp-includes/js/wp-embed.min.js </script> I’m going to save this weeks ‘update’ for the monthly email, but I do want to share about how Christ has really spoken to me with the scripture of Jesus’s prayer in the place, the garden, called Gethsemane.  It seems fitting to share this with you now as we draw closer to Easter. In the month of December, as we neared Christmas and were celebrating the holiday season; I have to admit that at the beginning of December, I was pretty much done with all of your Christmas cheer.  I don’t mean to say that in a rude way, and I hope I wasn’t rude to any of you; but I was hurting.  I didn’t want to celebrate and I really wanted to avoid the whole season.  Now, I know that Christ knows our pain and suffering; we all know this and understand it; in our minds at least.  But God took me to Jesus’s prayer and I was compelled to look at in in all the gospels; in Mark 14:36, Matthew 26:38-44 and Luke 22:42-44.  How I ended up in this scripture, I really don’t know; but it was a morning of reading, praying, casting (hucking and throwing) and when I came to this passage in Matthew; it was like the Father said ‘stop here, I want to tell […]