Thoughts by Hannah Michelle

This spring, my church has been doing a sermon series on the last 192 hours (week) of Jesus's life.  I've really enjoyed this series and its Bible study, and I've learned from it.  I'm going to try to write about each day during this Holy week to share what I have learned!  (I am hoping to translate my scratchy writing in the margins of my Bible so I hope this makes sense.) Palm Sunday:  I previously wrote about this a little bit in my blog from a few weeks ago. from Mark 11:1-11 During Palm Sunday, many of us know that this is when Jesus came into Jerusalem for the Passover.  Passover is the Jewish festival that celebrates and symbolizes freedom.   At this time in history, the Israelites were under the rule of the Roman Empire.  The Romans were strong and powerful, and asserted their power.  The Israelites had to pay their taxes, which basically was paying for their oppression.  The Romans focused on enforcing their power and "peace" by violence and

I get lots of questions about what I want to do in my future career(s).  One of my answers is always law school, and that leads to more questions.  People do not see me as a person who is always competitive, set to win, and wanting to take down other people.  That is true.  I don't always compete, in fact, I'd rather play the board games where all the players play together. And I'm not a person set on taking other people down to make myself look better; it has never been in my nature.   However, when I say law school, I don't mean the Ivy League, fight-to-the-death, prosecutorial role that many people think of when law school is mentioned.  (Or Legally Blonde .)  I see injustices in this world every single day.  I see people arguing and not basing their opinions on facts.  I see people hurting, crying out for help, each in their own ways.  And yes, sometimes those cries of help are violent.  Sometimes they are deplorable and well, icky.  But they are cries of help a