APRIL 25 NEWSLETTER

Julie Writes
The sun is shining today, and I’ve managed an hour in the garden pruning and cutting away old growth to make space for the new buds to flourish. A blackbird came for a splash in the pond and the frogs are busy doing what frogs do at this time of year. Spring has definitely sprung.

I’m reminded of Jesus’ entry into Jerusalem on a donkey and the reckless praise of the people as they recognise the God-moment, breaking off palm branches and throwing their precious coats beneath the hooves of the donkey, welcoming Jesus as ‘Son of David’, a title of the Messiah. Jesus does not whip up the crowds, he comes on a humble donkey, but he does accept their praise. The religious leaders were angered by this and tell Jesus to control his disciples. Jesus declares that the very stones would cry out if the crowd were quiet.

God may not come to us riding on a donkey, the God-moments are not always explosive in significance as Palm Sunday was. But God is not absent from his world. There are many smaller God-moments. God often comes to us through others, through his world, through events and we can know his presence in the everyday. Of course, we just need to make the time to recognise that God moment and give our hearts to honouring God, to see beyond the commonplace and the mundane and see the glory in the dust.

We have a few more weeks to go until that ‘Glorious Easter morn’ but I look forward to journeying with you on the way.

Julie.