{"id":2425,"date":"2024-03-10T08:57:38","date_gmt":"2024-03-09T19:57:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.parklands.org.nz\/?p=2425"},"modified":"2024-03-10T08:57:38","modified_gmt":"2024-03-09T19:57:38","slug":"forsaken","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.parklands.org.nz\/2024\/03\/10\/forsaken\/","title":{"rendered":"Forsaken"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>10 March (Colin)\u201cMy God, my God, why have you forsaken me?\u201d <\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\"><b> E t\u014dku Atua, e t\u014dku Atua, he aha koe i whakarere ai i ahau?<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><i>&nbsp;At noon, darkness came over the whole land until three in the afternoon.&nbsp;And at three in the afternoon Jesus cried out in a loud voice, \u201cEloi, Eloi, lema sabachthani?\u201d (which means \u201cMy God, my God, why have you forsaken me?\u201d).&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;When some of those standing near heard this, they said, \u201cListen, he\u2019s calling Elijah.\u201d&nbsp;&nbsp;Someone ran, filled a sponge with wine vinegar, put it on a staff, and offered it to Jesus to drink. \u201cNow leave him alone. Let\u2019s see if Elijah comes to take him down,\u201d he said.&nbsp;&nbsp;With a loud cry, Jesus breathed his last.&nbsp;&nbsp;The curtain of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom.&nbsp;And when the centurion, who stood there in front of Jesus, saw how he died, he said, \u201cSurely this man was the Son of God!<\/i>\u201d Mark 15:33\u201339 (NIV)<\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\"><b>Pete\u2019s ponderings : <\/b>This is the door of abandonment. I did this on the anniversary of the mosque shooting. Green is the colour of Islam.I tried to write as if spoken with a broken voice, through sobs. \u201cMe\u201d is written in small text &#8211; When you feel abandoned you are shrinking away to nothing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p5\"><b>Colin\u2019s chewings : <\/b>Jesus is in pain and feels the separation from his heavenly father. He calls out a voice of lament. For all of us there is something about when pain comes close.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p6\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>Questions for reflection<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<ul class=\"ul1\">\n<li class=\"li6\">Where were you when the mosque attack happened ?<\/li>\n<li class=\"li6\">When have you felt \u201cforsaken\u201d?<\/li>\n<li class=\"li6\">What are the pains you carry, Internal, external, physical, mental spiritual.<\/li>\n<li class=\"li6\">Brueggemann says \u201ca \u201ccommunity that regularly voices lament is a community that acknowledges present pain and that anticipates transformation\u201d . Do you agree ? If so why ? If not why not ?<\/li>\n<li class=\"li6\">Jesus quotes Psalm 22. Psalm 22 has voices of lament, remembering who you are, and God is, cries for help, a decision to praise, and a looking forward to what God will do. Which of these sing to you ?<\/li>\n<li class=\"li7\">How do you lament ?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>10 March (Colin)\u201cMy God, my God, why have you forsaken me?\u201d E t\u014dku Atua, e t\u014dku Atua, he aha koe i whakarere ai i ahau? &nbsp;At noon, darkness came over the whole land until three in the afternoon.&nbsp;And at three in the afternoon Jesus cried out in a loud voice, \u201cEloi, Eloi, lema sabachthani?\u201d (which means \u201cMy God, my God, why have you forsaken me?\u201d).&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;When some of those standing near heard this, they said, \u201cListen, he\u2019s calling Elijah.\u201d&nbsp;&nbsp;Someone ran, filled a sponge with wine vinegar, put it on a staff, and offered it to Jesus to drink. \u201cNow leave him alone. Let\u2019s see if Elijah comes to take him down,\u201d he said.&nbsp;&nbsp;With a loud cry, Jesus breathed his last.&nbsp;&nbsp;The curtain&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[64,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.parklands.org.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2425"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.parklands.org.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.parklands.org.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.parklands.org.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.parklands.org.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2425"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.parklands.org.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2426,"href":"https:\/\/www.parklands.org.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2425\/revisions\/2426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.parklands.org.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.parklands.org.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.parklands.org.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}