Lent Day 24: Pregnant

My entire life is pregnant. Spring is starting to burst forward with new life. A baby churns inside me. Our life is burgeoning with transition that are just around the corner but not quite here. Pregnancy, like Lent, is a time of waiting. Knowing the stillness and emptiness will be filled with life, energy and things to do. It's both exciting and terrifying.

The mind races with questions - what will it be like? How will life be different? How will I be different? How can I prepare? When will it happen?

You never know when birth will come. Often in the middle of the night, awaking you from sleep. In the darkest, stillest moments, a violence over takes us and new life is brought forth. It is that way with God too. We pray, we plead, we plan. We get silence. We relent to the silence and then, in the unexpected moment the wildness of God breaks forth in new creation. Opening doors. Changing our lives. Setting our courses. As we draw to the dark evening of Good Friday, and hear that striking silence after that final cry -- It is finished! When the whole of creation holds its breath, God is at work. Easter is coming....