Today is the Feast of Annunciation. Good news proclaimed before we can even see it. A brave young woman, willing to accept an impossible call because it comes through an overshadowing by the power of the Most High.
“How will this be?” Mary asked, “since I am a virgin?”
The Holy Spirit will come on you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. So the holy one to be born will be called the Son of God. Even Elizabeth your relative is going to have a child in her old age, and she who was said to be unable to conceive is in her sixth month. ”
“I am the Lord’s servant,” Mary answered. “May your word to me be fulfilled.” Then the angel left her. (Luke 1: 34-38)
How is your Lent coming, friends?
Our Lent has been very low key. I can’t find the mantle letters I packed away last year, so we still have GRACE up, instead of PRAY. Grace is good, too, and it’s apparently the message I need to be focusing on right now. I haven’t even pulled out the Lent wreath, though the children have asked. (I don’t know why I have such lassitude about it.)
We have been slowly memorizing Isaiah 58:6-9 (we’re on verse 7). We’re taking this slow, so that even SweetP can join in. I feel like the Israelites in the desert– I’d love to push ahead and get somewhere (anywhere?) faster, but the point is to bring everyone along. Leave no one behind. So we go slowly.
But Easter is around the bend, with Holy Week looming. This is a link to our Holy Week tradition, and one the children are planning to hold me to, lassitude or not. But I am excited to peruse my copy of Let Us Keep the Feast: Holy Week and Easter (out this week) for new traditions and ideas.
Learning As We Go 