John O. Cheney Meditations for the Watch

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In many churches there is a provision for meditation time between theend of the Maundy Thursday eucharist and the Good Friday services. This is called the watch and is scripture related to Jesus asking if hisdisciples could not stay awake with Him for one hour. In this hour wewere called to prayer, scripture, and thought. Having done this for a number of years, I was continually challenged tofind something to meditate on. Reading scripture helped, but where togo from the descriptions there to an application in my life or situationsometimes was a dry spot. In some cases people had left some literatureabout the crucifixion. I often read those articles and found themmeaningful, but they werent always available. To solve this problem, I tried writing a meditation for use in my parisheach Maundy Thursday for a number of years.