Day Nineteen - Disappointement

 

'Christina's World' by Andrew Wyeth

This is a remarkable picture of a young woman in 1947 who chose to get about her area by shuffling on the ground.  The artist viewed her and was inspired to paint.  We do not know whether consent was obtained.  As you can see, this is a very rural part of America.  

What is disappointment?  A young person can not walk.  Many older people can not walk, but we tend to accept this.  A young person is free to get about as she wishes, but would she do this in down town New York?  How might my disappointment affect this young person?  How does it affect me.

We read in the gospels of Jesus' own close friends expressing their disappointment about Jesus.  How wrong they were.

Luke 24 18-26

One of them, named Cleopas, asked him, “Are you the only one visiting Jerusalem who does not know the things that have happened there in these days?”
 “What things?” he asked.
“About Jesus of Nazareth,” they replied. “He was a prophet, powerful in word and deed before God and all the people.  The chief priests and our rulers handed him over to be sentenced to death, and they crucified him;  but we had hoped that he was the one who was going to redeem Israel. And what is more, it is the third day since all this took place. In addition, some of our women amazed us. They went to the tomb early this morning  but didn’t find his body. They came and told us that they had seen a vision of angels, who said he was alive.  Then some of our companions went to the tomb and found it just as the women had said, but they did not see Jesus.”
 He said to them, “How foolish you are, and how slow to believe all that the prophets have spoken!  Did not the Messiah have to suffer these things and then enter his glory?”

PRAYER:  Help me to recognise my disappointment and discuss it with you.