The forty days of Lent welcome us into Jesus’ experience on the long journey in the dry desert. Desolation that seems to go on and on and on. And on. These days ask us to sit and watch and trust the Good Story. Lent’s not so different from the rest of our life, is it?
In our neighborhood, there’s a yellow house with a blazing red door. I recently saw my neighbor’s black lab, a platter-sized frisbee in his mouth, sitting on the porch. The lab waited alone, ears pointed, eyes alert, waiting with anticipation and longing. This Lent, I’m taking my cue from the black lab clutching that frisbee, waiting for hope to walk out that red door.
With Jesus, there’s a red door in every desert.
I’m waiting for the hope behind the red door, too.
you have company
Such a vivid image, Winn, indelible now to carry me even in my ordinary occupied days.
we’ll both carry it…
Thank you for this brief word picture for the “desert” of my elder care journey.