Digging Out

Yep, another weather-themed reflection.

Most of the snow has fallen.  Where there was bare grass yesterday, now lies a foot of cover.  The mounds had more shrunken to a manageable size but now they will once again loom large.  Digging out seems so Sisyphean.

But it needs to be done.  We need to get to work, to school, to church, to play, to wherever we are going.  If done properly, it provides a good work out.  And the old snow and the new are not the same.  You remember the old saw about no two flakes being the same? Well, its true for mounds and piles and berms.

Our sins, whether the personal kind, or the ones we perpetrate as communities, keep on building up.  Lent is a reminder that despite this reality there is hope.  We can take time to hack away at them, to reduce the pile, to get ahead.  And on Easter, well, Sisyphus finally will make it to the top.  Imagine that.  Life conquering death, hope conquering sin, love conquering hate.  But we have to help by responding to God's gift.

We need to clear the way.

So start digging.

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