Maundy......a command I give

Maundy.........probably from the Latin mandatum the word for command or commandment.  It is the first word of the phrase "mandatum novum do vobis ut diligatis invicem sicut dilexi vos" the Latin translation of "A new commandment I give unto you.  That you love one another as I have loved you."  John15

Maundy Thursday.  The day of Christ's commandment to love.

 How do you command someone to love?  How do you know when you have fulfilled such a commandment when love is as deep as the ocean?

Perhaps you start by getting your feet wet......and perhaps by washing the feet of another. Figuratively and literally.  Bend over and start at the bottom where every human foot encounters all the detritus, trash and dirt and seriously icky stuff of this world.  Start your loving there at the bottom.  Find whatever the equivalent of washing a foot is in your world and do it.

It will require putting down the stuff we drag around with us, our troubles, our agendas, our importance and our ego.  We will have to put down our smartphones and satchels, pull the ear buds out of our ears.  We will have to carry water and find towels.  We will have to get all. the. way. down.

Jesus loved his disciples before he washed their feet and washing their feet wasn't the lowest he was willing to go to embody God's love for God's creation.  Tomorrow he would take on Rome and a cross.

But let's start at a simpler place.  Let's try washing feet and see how we do with that.