Living Compass Spirituality & Wellness

Disarmed, and Armed with Love


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The Living Compass Spirituality and Wellness Podcast Episode: Disarmed, and Armed with Love

As we enter Holy Week, Scott reflects on one of the most overlooked details of the Palm Sunday story — how Jesus enters Jerusalem. Rather than arriving with military might, chariots, and armor as the leaders of his day would have done, Jesus enters humbly, on a donkey, armed only with love. This simple but profound choice sets the tone for everything that follows in Holy Week.

In this episode, Scott explores:

  • What Jesus' entrance into Jerusalem reveals about the nature of true power
  • Why healing and wholeness are always rooted in love rather than might
  • How vulnerability and simplicity — not armor and force — are the hallmarks of love in action
  • The through-line connecting Palm Sunday, the washing of feet on Maundy Thursday, and the cross
  • Why, as Martin Luther King Jr. said, only love can drive out hate — and what that means for our world today

As the Lenten season draws to a close, Scott reminds us that cultivating healing and wholeness with all our heart, soul, strength, and mind is ultimately another way of saying we are choosing love — and that love, as Easter proclaims, always wins.

Blessings to you as you enter Holy Week — disarmed, and armed with love.

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