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It’s April 15, and in addition to being tax day, it’s the 100th consecutive day I’ve published a blog since the string began on January 6. (Those who write a blog every day say that the first 1,000 days are the hardest, so I’m 10% there!)

The daily discipline has forced me to pay attention to what God is saying and figure out how to succinctly pass it on to you!

Today, as we go into Holy Week, I’m thinking about Jesus’ prayer in the Garden as suggested by Gary Jansen in Station to Station: An Ignatian Journey through the Stations of the Cross. The prayer ends, as we all remember, with “Not my will but yours be done.”

What’s new for me is the obvious connection to the Lord’s Prayer’s “Your Kingdom come, your will be done.” Every time we pray the Lord’s Prayer, we’re praying the same thing Jesus prayed in the Garden, and that makes it serious business! Probably too serious to be recited glibly by rote in a church service, but that’s another matter.

As we follow Jesus this week to the cross and on to the resurrection, let’s remember “not my will but yours be done” applies to us, too.

Then he said to the crowd, “If any of you wants to be my follower, you must turn from your selfish ways, take up your cross daily, and follow me. (Luke 9.23, NLT)