Dear Friends
Lent comes from an old English word which
means “lengthen”. While the days have been getting a little
bit longer since December 21st, they will seem much longer this Sunday
afternoon, with the return of Daylight Savings Time.
I am reminded of the cartoon showing a man
speaking to his doctor. “What’s wrong?” the doctor is asking
his exhausted patient. “Doc, I just don’t know how many more times I can spring
forward and fall back!” Shall we add, after last Saturday, February 29th, “leap
for a year”?
By the way, do you have a minute?
On the face of it, hands down, now is a time to ask “Where did
the time go?” It seems it was
only yesterday when we were “falling back” (Nov. 3rd) to get an
extra hour of sleep. Now, the Lord who gaveth us that hour is going to taketh
it away, although one could argue the Lord is our light and he recognizes that
now it is time to giveth us more light at the end of, not the tunnel, but the
day. In any case, watch out and band together as we move forward
together, holding little hands and big hands, or perhaps for now,
just bumping wrists.
And talk about leaps of faith.
I don’t want to leap (or jump) to any conclusions. We could be saying “Four
more years!” (the next time we will have 366 days in the year), but do we want
to risk being misunderstood?
And finally, midway between “Leap Day Saturday” and
“Spring Forward Sunday”, there is one more day to consider. And that is
today. What else can I say but
March forth,
to love and serve the Lord!
John
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