Holy Week Reflection

May your Holy Week be a sacred time and may God bless us as we make this journey to Easter Sunday together!

The following is a reflection from our Foundress Sister Annamarie Cook that we have chosen to reflect on this week:

As we begin the new season of the year, laboring in God's Vineyard, at very new or more familiar work, it is important that we continue to keep in touch daily with the Word.

Martha was "busy about many things" and it was good, but there was too much "busyness" about her work. Mary had "chosen the better part" simply because she took time to sit at the feet of the Master and listen…

Listening to the Master involves a quietness in some part of each day and an attentiveness to the word as it comes to us from Him. Of what will all our busyness be, even though it is in the Vineyard, and is about His work, if it is not impregnated with what has come to us in silence and in listening to His Word?

Blest shall we be if, true to our name, our contact with the Word is made daily and its effects subconsciously linger with us throughout the day, for then we will labor and our labor will bring results... good results in the Kingdom of God. "For as the rain and the snow come down from heaven, and return not thither, but water the earth, making it bring forth and sprout, giving seed to the sower, and bread to the eater, so shall my word be that goes forth from my mouth; it shall not return to me empty, but it shall accomplish that which I purpose, and prosper in the thing for which I sent it.” (Isaiah 55:10-11)

- Sister Annamarie Cook, SLW Foundress
Speak Lord Volume 6 #7, Written in September 1980

Let the spirit of Holy Week inspire you to show compassion, love, and kindness to those around you, reflecting the love of Christ.

-SLW Congregational Leadership Team