Calmly Plotting the Ressurection

"E.B White, the famous writer of Charlotte's Web and more, found his wife, Katherine, a brilliant editor at the New Yorker, in the last year of her life, placing daffodil bulbs gently into the Maine ground in October.  She was "calmly plotting the resurrection," according to White.
She knew she was sick, she knew she didn't have long, but she did have hope.  Surely she was afraid. But she wasn't afraid enough to resist planting.
She reminds us of those women at first discovery of the empty tomb.  They were surely afraid but not afraid enough to preclude their hope or joy.  We begin Lent with a destination in mind.  We too want to find the tomb empty or at least some tomb empty.  We are willing to weep as long as joy comes in the morning, or to the next generation of bulbs or people."  (Calmly Plotting 2014 Lent Devotionals "The Sillspeaking Writers Group")

This is the reading that created our lenten theme "Planting Hope"
As we head into lent I invite you to walk with Jesus in the way of Hope and love.  As we walk through the wilderness towards the cross may we not despair, may we see the Jesus Way.  May we plant hope in the gardens of our lives and in this congregation.

"This Lent may we calmly plot the resurrection, on bulb, one congregation and one day at a time."
Amen.