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James Sherman.

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Quo Vadis.
@anna.j.sherman
@performancekicking - Austin
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Forever sounds like a good plan to me 🤟🏼
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Ecclesiastes 4:12 taken in Austin, Texas by @jamessherman43

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Took a while, got the jokers out of the deck now 🃏
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Hebrews 10:36 taken in Olive Garden - Times Square by @jamessherman43

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Just the beginning… 💍
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Colossians 3:14 by @jamessherman43

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The little way 🍃 by @jamessherman43

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Our biggest prayer wrapped up in ribbons of God’s providence & timing.
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Welcome to this side of Heaven, sweet girl. We love you with every fiber of our being. 🎀
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Happy Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary 🩷 by @jamessherman43

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Summer’s in the books, and the guys in Austin put in the work.

Now it’s time to see it show up this fall. Excited to keep developing these guys as the season kicks off! taken in Austin, Texas by @jamessherman43

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Strive.

“Let all the brothers, however, preach by their deeds“ - St. Francis of Assisi taken in Austin, Texas by @jamessherman43

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life lately

a whole lot to be grateful for in april

strive. by @jamessherman43

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Lenten Reflection 40/40

Jesus, who died on the Cross for me, have mercy on me, a sinner. Your Passion and Death overwhelm me with grief and sorrow for my sins. Grant me the grace to hear and respond to Your word.

Good Friday is not just the death of Jesus. It is the undoing of Adam.

In a garden, Adam said no to God. In a garden, Jesus says yes.

Adam’s sin brought toil, sweat, thorns, and death. Christ takes all of it on Himself. He sweats blood in Gethsemane (Luke 22:44). He wears the thorns (Genesis 3:18). He hangs on the tree and becomes what we could not fix on our own (2 Corinthians 5:21).

He is the New Adam.

He is also the Lamb of God.

Mocked, scourged, crowned in thorns, silent before His accusers, just as Isaiah said: “Like a lamb led to the slaughter” (Isaiah 53:7). What looked like humiliation was actually enthronement. The King was taking His place by offering Himself.

“It is finished” (John 19:30).

Not defeat. Completion.

The work of salvation is accomplished. “By his wounds we are healed” (Isaiah 53:5). And when His side is pierced, blood and water flow out (John 19:34). Divine Mercy is not an idea here. It’s opened and poured out. The Church is born from His side, just as Eve came from Adam’s side.

Good Friday is not just about feeling bad for Jesus.

It is about seeing what yours and my sin cost, what His love chose, and what mercy has now made possible.

Strive. by @jamessherman43

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Lenten Reflection 39/40

Holy Thursday is a reminder that before we do anything for God, we have to learn to receive from Him.

Almost 2,000 years ago, in the breaking of bread in that Upper Room, Our Lord and Savior began His sacrificial journey to the Cross, for us, for all time.

And that’s what stands out to me about the Mass today. He still meets us where we are. We can try and make it about what we bring to the table, what we do, what we understand. But at the center of it all is Jesus saying, “This is my body, given up for you.” He is the one acting first. He is the one pouring Himself out. He is the one drawing Heaven and earth back together through His sacrifice.

We’re responding to that love.

Holy Thursday is not just a call to serve. It is a call to let Christ wash us, prepare us, and feed us. To come with a clean heart. To be receptive. To stop hovering over the mystery and actually let Him love us there. The heart of the Mass is the Heart of Jesus, given for us, offered to the Father, and placed within us so that we can be drawn into His life.

So tonight is not a box to check. It’s an invitation to receive the greatest gift on this side of Heaven.

Strive. by @jamessherman43

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6 months ago

Lenten Reflection 38/40

Be careful what you trade Jesus for.

Judas Iscariot agrees to thirty pieces of silver (Matthew 26:15). That number isn’t random. In Exodus 21:32, thirty pieces of silver was the price of a slave.

That’s what they valued Jesus at.

And the part that really stops me every time I read this: Jesus knew exactly what Judas would do, and He still brought him in. He still called him. Still let him walk alongside of Him. Still sat with him at the table. Still gave him responsibility.

That is the kind of love we are dealing with in Holy Week.

Jesus is not naive. He is not surprised by betrayal. He is not caught off guard by our weakness, our compromise, our half-heartedness. He sees it clearly, and He still invites us.

That does not excuse Judas. But it does reveal Christ.

The tragedy is not only that Judas sold Him. It’s that he kept moving deeper into despair instead of turning back toward mercy, that’s where this gets personal.

Because maybe the point is not just to look at Judas and ask how he could do it. Maybe the point is to ask what I still trade Jesus for.

Approval. Control. Comfort. Sin that isn’t worth nearly what it costs.

Thirty pieces of silver wasn’t enough then, and whatever I’m tempted to choose over Him isn’t enough now.

Holy Week is not just about what Judas did to Jesus.

It’s about what Jesus is still willing to do for people who betray Him.

Strive. by @jamessherman43

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