Little Free Graces
I’ve been intrigued by Little Free Libraries: pole-mounted boxes that look like dollhouses holding books that are free for the taking, reading and returning. They’re springing up all over the world, and the current estimate is more than 50,000 in 70 countries. Continue reading “Lenten Reflections”
Elephants in the Room
Did you hear the news? After 146 years, Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus is folding its tent in May. It’s sad news for circus lovers, but the writing was on the wall last year when the circus retired its elephants. The elephants were the greatest attraction for “the Greatest Show on Earth,” and without them, already-falling ticket sales fell even further. Continue reading “Lenten Reflections”
In Whatever Season
It’s interesting the way we’ve boxed Advent and Christmas into wintertime and Lent and Easter into spring. It seems we want our Jesus to be born on a dark cold night and to rise on a bright warm day; to come into this world under the harshest of human conditions, and to return in an explosion of heavenly glory. Continue reading “Lenten Reflections”
