It is an interesting day of Lent around here.  There is a garage sale going on at the church and my husband is outside in the backyard with several of his suits and a brush.  He is not trying to remove any “lint” on them. He is literally “dusting them off” to give away.  He says, “You can sorta tell it’s time when a suit has a vest to it!”  Oh my gosh…as I am watching the dust fly out of that vest while he is pounding it with the brush, I am thinking, “Did he really wear that?”  He then proceeds to tell me that all those suits are in really great shape.  “I just wasn’t very hard on them”, he says proudly.

Meanwhile, the security system guy is here to connect our new windows.  Now my husband comes out of his closet carrying the security box and proclaims, “The guy says they don’t make these anymore!”

Next come the golf shoes…

I especially like how he dated them.  Looks like they were “in the rough” a little more than the suits!

Yes, it’s a Lenten kind of day around here!  “You can’t put new wine in old wineskins”, Jesus says. (Matthew 9:17)  Jesus is bringing new wine on this journey of Lent we are on.  Cleaning out the old is important and necessary.

In the third chapter of the book of John, Nicodemus, a religious leader, is told by Jesus that he must be born again to see the kingdom of God.  Nicodemus asks a question of Jesus, “How can a man be born when he is old?”  Jesus responds, “The wind blows where it wishes, and you hear its sound, but you do not know where it comes from or where it goes.  So it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit.”

We are on our faith journey of Lent.  I think I hear a breeze blowing around here today! And somewhere out there mighty winds are blowing, bringing about new birth…

This is a photo taken by the Hubble Space Telescope of mighty winds creating a massive star birth called N 159 taking place 170,000 light years away in the Large Magellanic Cloud. How can something be born when it is that old?  Ah, the wonderful mysterious ways of the mighty winds of the Spirit captured in a click of the camera!

Pondering thoughts…

Is there something old you might clean out to be ready for the new?

How might you hear the wind of the Spirit awakening the Mystery around you and within you?

(Have a great weekend.  Take a look at the stars if you can.  I’ll be back here Monday morning)

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