Easter Sunday-We connect Easter with spring. After the snowfall, I like seeing signs of life re-emerge, and daffodils survive and green growth struggling forth. When the snow melts, I will dig up a garden. Mary mistook Jesus for a gardener, and the empty tomb was a new Eden of life.Sanctuaries are filled with flowers. to borrow from Babara Qalters, what flowers would you like to see in your spiritual garden this year?
Monday-Where did April Fools Day even come from? It may be related ot the feast of fools or prank days in various cultures, but its origin for us seems lost.In mnay culutres, the figure of the fool, the clown, the jester can go in a number of directions.I never appreciated the trick sof the day or the kind of pranks tha seem to give os much pleasure ot others. I do grasp that humor, in different forms, may be able to speak a truth that seriousness could not utter.
Tuesday-How does one handle falling behind? Sometimes we can schedule time to play catch-up, but sometimes the goal seems to recede away from us, even if we work our hardest. It may be wise to break up an ultimate goal into some pieces, and it may be wise ot make some process points to be built into one’s plans, including the inevitable delays.What are your best tools for keeping on, for perseverance?
Wednesday-Nahum is little book. It has a phrase on peace (1:15)that also shows up in Isaiah 52.When Israel lost wars, it seems its concern for peace grew. We are so used to seeing conflict on the horizon, where do you spot emissary signs of peace? What do you tend to seek as signs of peace? What sort of emblem for peace would you create, as say, a new peace sign? Perhaps move this locus a bit: from inner peace, to interpersonal, to community to nation.
Thursday-We speak of learning to read between the lines.Sometimes what we read or hear conveys more meaning that what lies on the surface.It may be emotion; it may be a hidden agenda, it may be some didden depths under a seemingly simple exterior. Do you think reading between the lines is a virtue or a vice? why is it so diffiuclt to communicate that we feel a need to read between the lines?
Friday-The stores are selling some Easter candy at a discount. Even that plastic grass that seems to breed is available.Easter seem to flee away more quickly than the Christmas season. We seem to return to normal more easily.Every sunday we have Easter in focus, but we grow inured to it with repetition.What parts of Easter do you most want to keep in heart and mind? What parts are easiest for you to relinquish until next year?
Saturday-My favorite sporting event the men’s college basketball tournament continues. For me a big part of it is the David v. Goliath aspect of it. It also is a time for folks to move out of their personal zone and connect with people on the same thing. In the scheme of things, it is unimportant, but it still is a container for hopes and emotion.some get all wrapped up in a team with whom they have some connection. What are the connections for your response to church?
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