As I rode in the passenger side of our well loved Honda oddesy, I glanced out the window to see people eating in a restaurant. I fell onto a sort of people watching a we drove through the downtown. Then, it hit me... wait.. people are eating... INSIDE!
Lent has been long this year. Mandatory giving up date nights, vacations, swimming pools, sports. More time thinking about family and faith and mortality. Collectively we've gone through something. We're still there and we're tired.
I was listening to an audiobook about Lincoln and the Civil War. I didn't realize he died on Good Friday. That last day of his life was a true ending of a long terrible Lent. Event after event signaled that the war was coming to a close and the work of reconstruction was to begin. He went to the theater that night with a sense that he had completed his most important life's work.
Data point after data point is lining up that soon this Lent of ours will be over. Vaccines are increasing. Cases are dropping. The eldest and most vulnerable are much more protected. Schools are opening. I signed the kids up for summer camp. There is light at the end of the tunnel.
Easter is coming. A new light. A new day. And Easter work is coming. We will be crawling out of these Lenten caccoons to rebuild life together. May this final push of this season be an opportunity to reflect on how we have been changed by our time apart. May we allow the Spirit to guide us to breathe love into a recovering world.
I'm so excited. Easter is coming.
Jesus didn't stay in the ground.
Amen.... there's a resurrection coming.
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