A Reflection and Prayer for Maundy Thursday

A Reflection for Maundy Thursday

Dear Friends,

the Revd Dr Susan Durber offers this reflection for Maundy Thursday.  It is for both private and public use:

Bare Feet

In our congregation, we like to keep it polite.
We speak of the weather, of bus times and birthdays,
families and foibles, of the everyday and easy.  

“You ought to wash one another’s feet.”

So, hard to imagine a community
where we could be so confidently vulnerable
that we take off layers
of socks, tights leggings, and jeans,
and reveal our imperfect and battered feet.  

“You should do as I have done to you.”

Harder still to create a place
where the deepest things of our hearts,
the fears and guilts, and traumas of our lives,
could be laid bare, held in love,
healed, soothed and bathed in holy water.

“Love one another, just as I have loved you.”

Show us, Jesus, how to be your disciples,
and give us the courage to unbind our own wounds,
as we bring real and tender love
to the feet of the beautiful and broken in this world.

With every good wish

Andy

The Rev’d Andy Braunston
Minister for Digital Worship