With the snowdrops just poking their heads up as I write this, the hint of daffodils to come, it seems that spring is finally coming to the garden and the hedgerows.
We have had a long hard winter and maybe that is why the papers and television are full of adverts enticing us to fly to far away destinations. It always seems so much better somewhere else.
It is true that it does us good to get away for a break. When we get away even for a few hours it helps us to get our lives a bit more in perspective. There is a reason that time out is called re-creation. In this time of Lent we remember how Jesus went out into the dessert for forty days to pray and reflect on the call of God. Not a holiday but a time to put aside all the distractions of daily life. Later throughout his ministry Jesus found time in his busy schedule to go apart to pray.
This Lent I hope that some of you have joined Lent groups, or are making more effort to keep to a daily reading schedule. There are many good books available and it is never too late to pick one up. If you have a computer why not visit a prayer site each day. For just a few minutes you can take time out at sacredspace.ie
But my mind returns to those wonderful holiday adverts, memories of places I have been lucky enough to visit and others that I hope to see one day. And I remember with great joy is the promise Jesus gave his followers in John 14. “I am going there to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am” This is what Easter is all about, through the death and resurrection of our Lord the way is open to those who love him.
We have a promise of a place more beautiful, wonderful than we can ever imagine, and we will not just be there for a week or two, but forever with our Lord and Saviour.
I pray that you will find time this Lent for re-creation.
Stevie
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