Reconcile
Happy Easter—to all, even those who do not necessarily celebrate it: I wish you the joy of the 50 days of celebration I’m aiming to stay present for—but life certainly has its distractions. I had a number of interesting observations I wanted to write about, mostly involving my children’s cute way of looking at life that has given me some perspective, sometimes, even when things are at their most chaotic. Thing is, something happened this past weekend as I hurried through grading essays and practiced music for services and met with students and played with my daughters. Something which reminded me of the tenuousness of life, and of the importance of a reflection on what will come beyond this earth on which we stand. I can’t shake the feeling of it, and somehow I want to try and tie it in to these other neat observations during a kind of life-changing Lent for both myself and my husband, one in which we grew exponentially from within. I learned that a friend named Bill, who was once much...