This time of Spring always reminds us of new beginnings with the flowers blooming, trees budding and our grass a hue of Emerald Green. It also garners in a very busy time for the Church with Holy Week. It many ways we have a heavy heart as we ponder the pain and anguish Jesus was facing in his plight to death and ultimately resurrection for us all. A key take-away is through death comes life. Yea trust me it is hard hitting, but when we sit down and think about it something new always comes from something old. We often think of death as an ending point, but it is just the beginning of a journey.
To parallel this to something we have all had occur in our lives, we can all look back at what we felt was a perennial failure, something that crushed our psyche. Whether that may be job, family, community, faith, friendship—really the list is endless. The failure shows us something that died within us only to develop into something new, that may be a future opportunity or pathway to another course we take. In many ways the failure was more important than the success, as humans we feel we must always gauge or measure by accomplished goals, but just maybe the failure was the more important part of the equation.
Such a great position of the Church is our renowned accomplishments around the stewardship toward Ecological well-being. A big shout out goes to the countless efforts around the Environmental Team. As we approach this coming weekend and probably the most well-known golfing event on our planet “The Masters” we need to recognize that the Church of Nativity, as it gets the great accolade of putting on the “Green Jacket”. In many ways I think of a powerful image that all of us have seen at some point. The astronaut that is given the ultimate experience to sit in space and peer out the window at mother Earth. This is so powerful and resonates especially with children as it is an awesome moment. I think that as Jesus rose from the Earth there was a place marker that he looked upon it, as a beautiful creation, that should be loved and cared for just like each other.
Blog written and submitted by Cuyler O’Connor