- John 21:15-19 ("Do you love me?")
- Identify with Peter and how he experienced this encounter after all that had happened; what may have gone on in him...
- observe what resonates in you from that and ponder it...
As a boy waited for the appearance of the first star so that the festival could begin, so you "listen in" on your own life: Where have you experienced the good fortune of being forgiven?Allow this experience to enter you deeply as an Easter experience and let yourself be filled by it ...
- Perhaps through people who have not rejected you even though you have done them wrong...
- Perhaps through fortunate events in your life which happened to you entirely undeserved...
- Perhaps in a sincere confession in which God's forgiveness was explicitly promised...
- Perhaps...
- Hymn meditation
"Grim death with all its might- Picture meditation
Cannot my soul af-fright
It is a pow'r-less form,
How-e'er it rave and storm" (Paul Gerhardt EG 112,4b )Seek to identify with the hymn writer who was deeply disturbed by the suffering of the Thirty Years War yet who could write such a verse...observe your feelings and ponder them...
Ancient Russian icon - Christ's descent into Hell (picture meditation)Christ enters as victor into the dark regions of your sin...