If our passion is mostly about protecting comfort, control, or the way we’ve always done it, we’ll end up guarding doilies while sending kids back into the streets. But if our passion is the common good—the house of prayer that welcomes and restores—then some plaques may get scratched, some tables may get repurposed, and, yes, some tables might get turned, but love will abide.

Palm Sunday isn’t just palm branches; it’s a question: Will we hush the parade to keep the peace, or let creation sing and join Jesus in remaking his house for prayer and community repair?

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