this Holy Week has snuck up on me and surprised me by feeling so weighty and significant. Spring in the South is beautiful and breezy and I haven't been very engaged with Lent. But Jesus comes and walks with us and dies and rises whether we are paying "enough" attention or not.
Thank you for this reflection. The hope is so complicated and I feel so...old? It's good to not be alone in the hard work.
Oh Laura. I'm right here with you. Spring in Buffalo is not pretty - it's full of melting snow piles now black from dirt and piles and piles of trash on the sides of roads. 40° rain and waiting for us to get that beautiful spring green. "It asks us to believe without a shred of evidence." I feel this in my bones. Thank you, as always, for stirring my stagnant soul with your words.
"This muddling middle time cannot be bypassed or sped through." Couldn't agree more. When I am discouraged at how frequently and easily we choose violence, I remind myself of how long these battles really go. Colonial Quakers were vocal abolitionists for 100 years before the U. S. Constitution even existed, and that was 80 years before the Civil War. If you had attended the Seneca Falls convention in 1848 as a 20 year old you would have been 92 when the 19th amendment was ratified. It's so easy to think that the quiet actions of private lives don't matter, but I believe in my bones that they do.
this Holy Week has snuck up on me and surprised me by feeling so weighty and significant. Spring in the South is beautiful and breezy and I haven't been very engaged with Lent. But Jesus comes and walks with us and dies and rises whether we are paying "enough" attention or not.
Thank you for this reflection. The hope is so complicated and I feel so...old? It's good to not be alone in the hard work.
Oh Laura. I'm right here with you. Spring in Buffalo is not pretty - it's full of melting snow piles now black from dirt and piles and piles of trash on the sides of roads. 40° rain and waiting for us to get that beautiful spring green. "It asks us to believe without a shred of evidence." I feel this in my bones. Thank you, as always, for stirring my stagnant soul with your words.
"This muddling middle time cannot be bypassed or sped through." Couldn't agree more. When I am discouraged at how frequently and easily we choose violence, I remind myself of how long these battles really go. Colonial Quakers were vocal abolitionists for 100 years before the U. S. Constitution even existed, and that was 80 years before the Civil War. If you had attended the Seneca Falls convention in 1848 as a 20 year old you would have been 92 when the 19th amendment was ratified. It's so easy to think that the quiet actions of private lives don't matter, but I believe in my bones that they do.