change

We're wrapped up in removing pews and putting chairs in the sanctuary at our church. I include myself in the observation of being wrapped up in the pew/chair discernment. No wonder we have trouble with the change that takes place in our lives in the transformation by Jesus Christ in his death and resurrection! The pew/chair situation is peanuts compared to that. That may be our biggest stumbling block about "believing" in Jesus and that he is our Lord, our Savior, the firstborn of the dead, our redemption. Not that we can't get our minds around any of this to make sense of it, but because all of that means the most unbelievable out-of-control change in and out of the world. So, we get wrapped up in more minor change controversies of life to pre-occupy ourselves with them. Then we don't have to face the BIG CHANGE which is what this ancient Christian season of Lent is all about in the journey to Good Friday and Easter. I plead with you to go to this article about why we avoid Lent.

Easter has become "just another holiday" now. There is no changing involved because we are afraid of it. We are more afraid of change than we are of death. But then...death is a major change isn't it?