March has come and the season of Lent is upon us. A couple of years ago I wrote about how inconvenient it was that Easter was so early in March. In fact then, it fell on March 23rd and by the dating formula, it could only possibly be one day earlier. Well that was then this is now.
This year Easter is an entire month later on April 24th. This time in the calendar cycle Easter can only possibly be one day later. So we have a little more time. But it is still not the most convenient of dates. Many of us on the staff have been talking about how it seems like we are missing something, that we feel we should be working on something besides what we normally do. It’s throwing us off and makes us feel uneasy.
What I have found is that in the same way the early date was inconvenient, so is the later. We like our schedules as a people and we like to be able to control and predict how things are going to happen. But as we start this Lenten journey we are reminded, that for Jesus and his disciples things didn’t go the way they wanted them to happen. In Jesus going to the cross and in his death, he accomplished something far greater than anything we could have predicted to happen with his resurrection.
The overall point is this: sometimes Jesus moves us along very quickly, other times Jesus calls us to wait patiently. But Jesus is always calling us, not necessarily to make things into what we want, but to transform our hearts and minds and to transform the world, in the way he would have them be. This Lent, be patient, listen for Jesus calling as we discipline ourselves toward a more holy life, and discover the wonders that God has given us, as we walk and wait along the road with him.
Peace and Prayers
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