Reaching out from Grand Lake Community Chapel
Wednesday, March 12, 2025
This is the day that the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it! Let us rejoice in the days getting gradually longer, and let us be glad that the switch to Daylight Savings Time is behind us for another year! We know that it takes a few days for things to begin feeling “normal” after the time change, and so we hope that everything is going well for each of you. We’d like to think that we got all of the clocks in our houses changed, but there’s almost always one or two clocks in an obscure corner of the house (or in a car!) that we missed, which can cause just a wee bit of excitement! Maybe someday we won’t have to adjust our clocks twice a year…
We are now fully into the Lenten season; the paraments in the sanctuary are purple, and the scriptures point directly to Jesus’ journey to the cross. We’re only a couple of days away from the infamous “ides of March,” which really only means the middle of the month, and are infamous only because Julius Caesar had a really bad day about 2,000 years ago. In a week (plus one day), it will be the vernal equinox, the beginning of spring, and incidentally is also “Mr. Rogers Day.” A week into the journey with Jesus, how far have you come? A week after Ash Wednesday, has the imprint of the cross faded away? This isn’t meant to scold anyone, only to ask how it’s going; the 40 days of Lent are exactly that – 40 days. There’s a lot of time left to continue the journey, or to start it as the case may be. The imprint of the cross may no longer be visible on your forehead (or back of your hand), but that doesn’t mean that it isn’t still there. In a perfect world, at least a perfect church world, we would all be laser-focused on the path to the cross, having set aside any and all distractions that might bump us off-course, and we would constantly feel the burn of the ashes reminding us of why we’re on this particular journey. Alas, the world isn’t perfect, and so our Lenten journeys are not perfect; and that’s really OK. Every day is a chance to start again, and so if you aren’t where you’d like to be on the journey (or if you haven’t started yet), get going! It’s never too late.
Greetings in Christ!
Blessings,
Karen and Greg
Home: (989) 474-9116, Cell: (734) 502-5969
revgregrc@yahoo.com / revgreggl@yahoo.com
revkarenrc@yahoo.com / revkarengl@yahoo.com
For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men,
the man Christ Jesus, 1 Timothy 2:5
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