Hey, Don't Forget Me !!

When forests walked and fishes flew

And figs grew upon thorn,

Some moment when the moon was blood,

Then, surely, I was born.

With monstrous head and sickening bray

And ears like errant wings—

The devil's walking parody

Of all four-footed things:

The battered outlaw of the earth

Of ancient crooked will;

Scourge, beat, deride me—I am dumb—

I keep my secret still.

Fools! For I also had my hour—

One far fierce hour and sweet:

There was a shout around my head

and palms before my feet 

The Donkey by G. K. Chesterton

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Some hopes for Lent 2010

Well here we go again:  Lent 2010. The forty day period of reflection that allows us to get closer to the meaning of Christ's coming as a human and his suffering , death and resurrection.

I love the story in the gospels of the two disciples on the road to Emmaus. It is a tale that unfolds after the death and resurrection of Jesus. The two disciples are feeling low because they do know how much Christ meant to them when he was alive. They feel despondent because they have not really grasped the meaning of his death and they don't have much sense of his presence in their lives, and are probably doubting the facts of his resurrection. Yet they had hoped ............................... and that glimmer of hope keeps them talking and walking.

But they are troubled with grief and sorrow and they walk as we often do when we are feeling at a loss and bewildered as to what to do next.

But somewhere down the road a stranger comes alongside them and as they walk they tell their story about their dreams,  their hopes and fears and the stranger somehow opens them up and amazes them by his own knowledge of the scriptures.

They stop and have a meal and it is then that the stranger breaks the bread  at the table and they realise that they are with  Jesus. There is more to the Emmaus story but this is plenty enough for starters......

Part of my hope this Lent is that I will be able to open a path to walk along and somewhere along the way Jesus will meet me , break bread with me and open  my heart to understand his presence in my life and how to live it well for his sake.