Forgivness Sunday

                                                       

 Forgiveness Sunday.

I love Forgiveness Sunday.  Everything we need to know is right there.  We are all sinners, and by the way, I am the worst.  We learn that we have the gift of repentance that we can turn and live by loving and forgiving our brother.  It's a short journey and we begin as we end, in the resurrection of Christ where the bonds of death can no longer hold us captive.  Nothing now can separate us from the love of God.  Here we are on this forty-day journey and in the end we begin where we end at the cross and the life-giving tomb.  Beautiful.

Please forgive me, the sinner, because I know my actions and thoughts have had far reaching effects.

Christ is Risen!

Along the Way

I feel like I am on this journey into the complete unknown, but not unknown.  I have not been where I am going, but feel like it is where I have always been heading.  I know it is crazy that I do the work I do and have no money to do it with.  It is just that I can't not do it.  I feel most alive when I do my work for the Chicagoland Green Burial Society.  I feel the hum inside me and the light ahead.  I keep moving.  I keep trusting that in the end, I will be able to fund this work, and I will be able to support my family all the while  making things right for all of us when the time comes and hearts are broken.  I just hope that this work helps people begin to see their life in joy, peace and love and have no fear of death.  Death certainly causes us pain when someone we love dies, but it need not be feared.  Fear keeps us from saying what needs to be said.  Fear keeps us from fighting the good fight. And fear paralyzes us.  May we move forward in truth and love.