It's back full speed ahead into Lent and Holy Week!
It was a wonderful two days-great lakes are beautiful places- but everyone I meet is ready for spring- and the weather sends us snow... a few months too late. So now we are all slushy and muddy.
Hmmm... maybe that is a good reflection place, lent/pre-spring: gospel/muddy and slushy -
We tend to wrap up this time of year in already neat Easter baskets- it's like a spoiler for the movie. It's a good story, but when you know the happy ending, our minds tend to hold that during the rough, dark and dangerous places.
How can we get into the muddiness of lent- the dirty walk to Jerusalem...
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Last year around this time I commented at a clergy meeting about how many of us were wearing brown. I got strange looks and tried to explain that I think of brown as beautiful in the Spring - plus the muddy season doesn't show up in the same way on the bottoms of brown pants.
I like the sloppiness.
It's almost Happy Birthday time, isn't it?
It's the transition of spring not quite yet - and folks yearn for certainity not the "not-quite-yet" times of life. However... it is precisely in the mud & the muck, that it is holy ground - fertile ground for God to come in and do God's thing right?
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