Today on my Monday ride (Monday’s being a day off when I try and take a longer cycling ride) I enjoyed seeing the beauty of some of Bartholomew County’s farmland in full summer season. The corn is growing and beans likewise. Most of the wheat has been cut and straw baled, with a couple of double crop bean fields noticed. One farmer was disking up a field that was yielding the sweet smell of fresh earth as I rode past – life in the country!
With such a firsthand view of these scenes my mind kept falling back to the importance of being grounded or rooted in life and faith. I’m a country boy at heart, raised to appreciate the land and the resources it provides. I’ve also come to understand there is a spirituality of land and place that God often uses to get our attention and draw us close. Continue reading
The season that follows Easter in the church year is called “Eastertide”. In our house we’ve been talking about this week in terms of it being Easter Monday, Easter Tuesday, Easter Wednesday . . . So, while the culture and world around us packs up the Easter season and moves on – to the latest news cycle, presidential primary, MLB season, or whatever – and while churches and pastors slow in their reporting (er- bragging?) about Easter Sunday attendance and hope they might see at least two-thirds of those folks again this Sunday . . . I’d like to linger a bit with Easter’s news and implications.
