Station 3: Jesus Falls for the First Time

At my workplace, I frequently face difficult situations that leave me feeling underprepared. No matter how much effort I put in, mistakes happen. It’s easy to feel overwhelmed by expectations, trapped by perfectionism, and anxious over the smallest errors.

Whenever I pray about Jesus’s first fall, I think about His humanity. Here is the Son of God, at His weakest, collapsing under the weight of our sins that make His cross heavier. Yet, what strikes me is not just the moment He falls—but what happens next.

🌿 After His first fall, we see His Mother, Simon, and Veronica. Each offering comfort, support, and love—small but meaningful reminders that His suffering had purpose.

This reminds me to look past my failures and recognize how God is reaching out to me. Even when my mistakes feel overwhelming, there is always something to learn, someone to help me rise again, something to look forward to.

It is through my own falls that my journey becomes worthwhile.

As it is through trusting in God that my perceived failures become bearable.

This Lent, I pray for resilience—that even when I fall or find myself in anxiety, uncertainty, or loneliness, I can look past the darkness and recognize how God is offering me support to help me rise again.

I pray that I can see how my mistakes and failures can become a source of strength, leading me forward in faith and hope, knowing that God is always by my side.

📖 “Therefore, I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and constraints, for the sake of Christ; for when I am weak, then I am strong.” – 2 Corinthians 12:9

Anna Hoang