If this is your first visit to the site, please read the first two posts for an introduction to the blog.Alex, the film maker got his first request for support from a couple of students who needed assistance with a computer project. I told him that was the price he has to pay for notoriety.
Sunday church seemed more solemn than usual. The appearances of the church with its stripped alter and other physical and visual alternation associated with the Lenten season frames a sacred and spiritual picture. One senses feelings of sorrow, guilt, and even pain. This time in our church year is difficult for many. The economy and the general state of the nation are providing challenges for all of us. Some seem to have real difficulties in letting go. It is my Lenten prayer that I can let go of those things that are troubling my life and that as a community of faith the solemn attitudes will be replaced with those of peace as we approach Easter.
Just sitting and observing the world around you provides you the opportunity to notice God’s work in progress. The weather is gray and rainy. As I sit in my dining room looking out the window at the birds at the feeders I notice a weeping willow in the neighbor’s yard. The warm weather of late winter has allowed it to bud but it still is bare. As I continue to monitor the birds off and on throughout the afternoon, I notice the tree is turning green. The rain continues and by eveing the tree has greened out completely. This is an example of a change in God’s world.
God makes changes in our lives just like he changed that weeping willow.
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