I do believe that, “not all time is created equal.” Value is increased dependent on our understanding and approach to time. My wedding day will always be a sacred day; as will be the day my daughter was born and - well you see where this is going. Next week begins Holy Week - commemorating the last week of Jesus life. I have found great value in setting aside a little extra time for reading, prayer and meditation to observe this monumental time in the life of Jesus which has marked human history for all time and eternity.

It would be great if we went from the season of winter to spring all in one day. But here in my neck of the woods - winter always wants to hold on and spring can be fickle too. So mornings can still be in the 20’s and by late afternoon the temps can reach the 70’s. It would be nice if one day the cold stopped and it was 68 degrees till summer. But it doesn’t happen like that - there is always a bit of a reminder of the pain and starkness of winter as Spring arrives.

Holy Week is a bittersweet week with themes of death and dying and pain mixed with hope, love and promise of the new. Yet too many churches fail to observe the days between Palm Sunday and Resurrection Sunday and miss the sacred and holy steps that fell between Monday and Saturday. They go from the loud shouts and bombast of Palm Sunday to the glory of Jesus’ victory over death the next weekend - with no context for what took place in between. Don’t go from Hosanna to Alleluia without any understanding of the feelings, words, actions and relationships that moved Jesus from the streets of Jerusalem to the road to Emmaus.

Join me next week as I share a very brief devotional thought along with readings and prayers for each day of Holy Week here at Perigrinatio.

Peace!