Long walks and bike rides have been P.E. at the Jung Homeschool this week. Warm days and new spring life sprouting up and down the sidewalks from our house to the downtown riverfront call us outdoors. We respond with a passion, a camera, bikes and a scooter.
I remember why spring is my favorite season. Warm air, sunshine and flowers deliver joy and hope.
New life all around me. It calls me to step, more easily, into joy.
Do I realize, though, that…
It’s already but not yet.
We’ve been given the date and the declaration but we have not really experienced it quite fully yet…at least not in Missouri. Yes…we’ve had days…but they have been too short. Just today we had 75-80 degree weather. But the wind is howling outside my window right now as I write and I think it will be below freezing tonight.
If my surroundings could be closely compared to a wasteland at all during the year, now would be the time. This is the point in…
Lotto, Lorenzo, Nativity, 1523
Matthew 27:59-60
59 And Joseph took the body and wrapped it in a clean linen shroud 60 and laid it in his own new tomb, which he had cut in the rock. And he rolled a great stone to the entrance of the tomb and went away.
John 20:11-16
“15 Jesus said to her, ‘Woman, why are you weeping? Whom are you seeking?’ Supposing him to be the gardener, she said to him, ‘Sir, if you have carried him away, tell me where you have laid him,…
Do you not know what is true of you in Christ?
The shards of a broken life fell on me cutting me and causing me to bleed. She sat easily in front of me as if to not hide a thing, gripped the sides of the chair as if to hold on for her life, and she truly did not hide a thing. All of it open bare and out. She took bricks off of her back one by one. Heavy tears flowed for each heavy chapter.
A sister in Christ’s life story has touched me…
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