So how many seasons can we go through without a post from me? Hmmm, its been Advent, Christmas and now it is Epiphany. I don't make new year's resolutions, I do want to resolve to post more regularly.
So what is going on? Lots--too much, perhaps. We've just taken down the Christmas greens and are now getting ready for the Bishop's visit, baptism, confirmations, lots of activity. Next week--January 22 is our annual meeting. We're already thinking about Lent--all the artists, writers, and poets in the community are invited to create something for our Stations of the Cross in Holy Week. Yes, I'm already contemplating Holy Week!
I wrote in this month's Spirit of Grace, our newsletter, that I really want to practice stillness, quiet, and living a slower pace. It is a near wrestling match with the calendar to do so. We all do it, though. This living in the moment and living in the month of April (or you fill in the blank) at the same time. It is hard. It is just as hard as living as earthly people and Reign of God people at the same time. And yet, we must practice these dual ways of living all the time.
How about instead we do this: For our calendars--live fully in the now and contemplate tomorrow. And for our lives--live fully in the now and live fully in the kingdom, the reign of God that is coming and also here. I don't know if that will work or how, but it sure beats living in the now and contemplating the kingdom or Reign of God--we do that too much already.
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