Lenten greetings beloved in Christ!
So, how are you? How is your journey through Lent? I am looking out the window this morning and the scene describes my journey perfectly: Large flakes of snow, gently blowing from north to south. Cloudy, but the sun is poking through and offering its warm light through the big dining room picture window. Cold, but promising for the day ahead.
Lent can be like that. Metaphorically cold - hard to get through, and yet offers metaphorical warmth in drawing nearer to the Resurrection. It's the promise of transformation. Like the butterfly in its chrysalis, we wait patiently through these days, hoping to emerge looking quite different.
Transformation isn't easy. If you've ever watched that butterfly shed its last layer of skin to form the chrysalis you understand - it looks excruciating. I often wonder if that caterpillar feels anything or if it strains through the pain knowing that something beautiful awaits it on the other side.
We are rapidly approaching Easter. Days fly by with not a care for slowing down for any one of us. We can ignore the day or we can live into the day (carpe diem, anyone?) enjoying every second as much as we possibly can. It is a journey, after all. with something beautiful waiting for all of us.
I love you all.
Pastor Greg
