Hiking Holy Saturday

hello my dear, how was your day? I miss you 🤍

Today is the Saturday between Good Friday and Easter Sunday. There usually isn’t much religious activity held by churches on this day, but I personally feel a lot about this day between the death of Jesus and his resurrection because it symbolises a time of waiting, mourning, and uncertainty. The truth is all these three states are where I often find myself struggling in, I guess that’s why I relate to this day so much.

I decided to go on hiking today because I wanted to spend this day of “waiting” to do something that is meaningful to me. I set the goal before to go hiking once a month if the weather allows, so I decided to fulfil that :) And I also wanted this to be a quiet time with God in the nature.

When I was sitting at the mountain top (the spot that I brought you to once before) to read my daily devotional that talks about this verse in the Bible: “Very truly I tell you, you will weep and mourn while the world rejoices. You will grieve, but your grief will turn to joy.”, I was really struck because I remember the last time when I was up here on my birthday also reading a devotional at the exact same spot, it was about a different verse but it shared a very similar message: “You will grieve, but your grief will turn to joy.” It’s like God wanted to remind me what he said to me before by intentionally repeating it at the exact location where he first said it.

As you know, I go through a lot of ups and downs in my mental state in the past few years. Sometimes it feels like I am on an endless roller coaster that I don’t even know how I may feel the next seconds. That is exhausting especially when you don’t know when it is going to end or will this even ever end. But in the midst of this, I feel that today God just wanted to reassure me that he promised one day, in his full picture, he will turn my grief and sorrow into joy and laughter.

I guess that is the meaning of Holy Saturday, to challenge us to wait with expectation, to cling to the hope that Good Friday is Good, because Sunday is coming.

This is where I sat at the mountain top :)

By the way, I just wanted to clarify that I choose to observe the Easter holiday this year by spending time to quietly reflect on the meaning of the festival because I feel that’s the closest to what my heart desires at this time. But I see it totally fine (& not judging at all) for Christians or non Christians to enjoy this long holiday by travelling or doing anything relaxing/ enjoyable, because afterall thanks to Jesus we get to have this very precious 4- days holiday, hahaha.

What about you? How did you spend your day? 😊 Miss you and I think a lot about you 🤍

A few more photos of me, before the hike:

After the hiking, I still think I prefer my hair untied, haha.

🤍 Good night.