Where is this week leading you?
A week of light and dark
Here in the Puget Sound region we've entered the season of lengthening light (nearly 13 hours a day already), of evening solar gain through our western facing windows that lulls our cats into near comas. Trees are budding, bulbs are blooming, and everything seems to shout "Rejoice!"
On Sunday I held a palm frond in church and raised my voice in a Hosanna! after our Palm Sunday gospel reading, and then I delivered the message after the Passion gospel reading. You can read it, along with my other two sermons this year on my website. I've never easily embraced this journey toward death that's so fundamental to the Christian faith. But it's a journey none of us can escape, Christian or not. On gorgeous sunny days, we walk alongside those who suffer. And in the midst of despair, we find reasons to hope.
This coming Sunday as others are feasting on ham, hardboiled eggs, and Peeps, I'll be fasting and cleansing inside and out in preparation for surgery on Monday and a month of laying low. But afterward I will celebrate Christ's Resurrection as well as the return of my prolapsed body part to its rightful location!
Wherever you find yourself, I wish you peace on your journey through light and dark this spring.
~Cathy
You're invited to join me in Poemographs & Memories, a daily photo prompt for April 2021. Each day I'll be providing a photo selected to spark imagination & creativity. I welcome you to use the photo in any way that's right for you—a poem, or story, thoughtful meditation, or inspiration for your own photography. I'll be sending the photos via email (email me if you'd like to be included & haven't already responded) as well as posting to them to my Poemographs & Memories Facebook group. If you'd like to share your response to the photos with a word, poem, story, or image, you're welcome to do so via email or the Facebook group.