On Palm Sunday we read in the gospels that Jesus is carried into Jerusalem on a colt, the foal of a donkey: a borrowed colt.
On Palm Sunday Jesus entered Jerusalem to the sounds of 'Hosanna' - "Save us NOW!", impatient, pressing, anticipating from the future, for implementation now: borrowed hope.
On Palm Sunday Jesus travelled with his followers, they would soon desert him, disown him deny him, transient: borrowed friendship.
On Palm Sunday the people came and shouted, raved and waved with their undying support, except it wasn't undying, it soon changed - 'Hosanna to... ' in the time it takes to say 'Barabbas': borrowed support.
On Palm Sunday his cards were up, a final journey, no turning back or u-turns: borrowed time.
A borrowed manger
A borrowed colt
A borrowed cross
A borrowed tomb
But like everything borrowed there comes a time for reckoning, at some stage a price must be paid.
Mark 1:1-11
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