Confirmation students beg to have class outside, even though it's not exactly warm enough. Discussions of the calendar revolve around weddings, wedding rehearsals and the annual New England Synod Assembly, birds are singing around my house, sometimes it's even still light when my office hours are finished. It must be Spring.
It was a little disorienting this past Friday to do a little shopping in the cold and damp weather, feeling as though Winter still clung to us, when I saw the Easter decorations cast on to the clearance shelf. However, I am deeply grateful to be in the Easter season. With the recent challenges I've experienced in campus ministry, in addition to coordinating the final stages of our upcoming youth trips, and generally working a few too many hours, I am glad to be in the fifty days of Resurrection. When I take time to pause and reflect I am awed by God's presence in these struggles, carefully and wonderfully opening paths to life when it appeared that all routes where cut off.
I more deeply appreciate Dietrich Bonhoeffer getting "stuck" on Job in his bible study in prison, and I feel as though I ought to dwell there for awhile as well. Job contends mightily with God, but he never curses or rejects God's justice.
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