Snow is melting on the roof, nature is making ice sculptures. There is one right outside my diningroom window. Art.
"Melting ice - a hot topic" was the name of a conference up north at Svalbard last summer. The ice on the poles is melting to fast, the oceans are rising, our world as we know her, is threatened.
Lent is for me a time to act. What can I do to make the world a better place? A safer place? Lent is for me also a time for hope. The melting ice from my roof is a sign of hope. Spring is coming. Life is growing, life is stronger than death. Still Easter and a risen Christ is far ahead, but the signs are here for us to seek, for us to see.
When I look out my window this morning, the signs of spring are hard to find. When the diciples walked with Jesus his last steps on the way to the cross, the signs of life and a risen Christ were hard to find. My walk through lent is a walk where I search for signs of hope. Signs of hope of a risen Christ, signs for hope of growing life!
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The fresh teen-ager is doing wonderful. She is having a sleepover party and I will snow make pancakes for their late breakfast. Grandma and grandpa are also coming to share pancakes and blueberry jam with us.
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a new "blog of the week" with alot of red
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NOTE: pancake recipe will soon be posted over in The Blue Café
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Information for Norwegian readers:
More Lent reflections at fasteblogg.no
Link to "40 dager - fra karneval til oppstandelse"
.....and English speaking readers can flip through the book here. (and enjoy the photos)
