HEALTH & WELLNESS
A FOCUS ON COLORECTAL CANCER AWARENESS MONTH
Encouraging One Another
by Mary Shaw-Ridley
Then Jesus went with his disciples to a place called Gethsemane, and he said to
them, “Sit here while I go over there and pray.” He took Peter and the two sons
of Zebedee along with him, and he began to be sorrowful and troubled. Then
he said to them, “My soul is overwhelmed with sorrow to the point of death.
Stay here and keep watch with me.”
Going a little farther, he fell with his face to the ground and prayed, “My
Father, if it is possible, may this cup be taken from me. Yet not as I will, but as
you will.”
Then he returned to his disciples and found them sleeping. “Couldn’t you men
keep watch with me for one hour?” he asked Peter. “Watch and pray so that
you will not fall into temptation. The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak.”
He went away a second time and prayed, “My Father, if it is not possible for
this cup to be taken away unl