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Dear Friends,
We thought the snow was over and yet here we are at the beginning of March and it is back with us yet again! Snowdrops and crocus are springing into life and beginning to peep out of the earth but they always seem to be shrouded in a blanket of snow.
Beautiful as that snow is to look at - it does nevertheless cause us great discomfort in one way or another. Be that because we cannot get out and about as easily on foot or on the roads; or the fact that it brings back with it those cold, wintry winds and darker days that can make us feel more than a little miserable and very uncomfortable.
I don't know about you but those kinds of days always seem to see me reaching for home comforts of some sort or another.
Be that wonderful comfort food - you know thick soups or stodgy puddings or a cosy jumper to snuggle up in or at the end of the day a seat right in front of the fire in your scruffiest, warmest clothes - anything to take away that uncomfortable, miserable feeling that overwhelms us on those wintry days.
However, as always reflecting on this it seemed to me actually this is the Season of Lent and perhaps it would be more fitting if we did feel more than a little uncomfortable during it!
Why?
Well then we might perhaps understand a little more just how uncomfortable life was for Jesus during his last few weeks on earth as he made his journey towards Jerusalem and crucifixion for us.
We can never truly understand what he went through at that time - his anguish, his suffering, his pain, his death - our discomfort can never compare to what he had to endure on that cross for us.
So, as we remember his last few weeks on earth and as we approach Holy Week - the days may make us more than a little uncomfortable but that's okay - uncomfortable is all it will be and it is only a little discomfort.
However, when we catch ourselves complaining, let's not grumble about any discomfort we may have - let's instead compare it to that of Jesus and be thankful that we do not have to endure the pain and suffering he did, because he took on that pain and suffering for us - so that we did not have to!
Lenten Blessings
Caryl
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