Spring Break

As you can see, I am on spring break and I wanted to make a blog post but could not think of anything good about which to write.  So, I will write about what is going on right here:  my sister has a friend over, and they are making friendship bracelets together.  The two of them look as if they could be in a Klutz book, laughing and chatting as they try to tie the bracelets!  My mom is on the phone, my other sister is taking a nap, my brothers are over at the neighbor's house, and I am blogging.

But about what?  How about Holy Week:  here we are, with Easter less than a week away!  I find this the longest week of the year.  This time, however, I have a new perspective, for we just finished watching the movie Ben-Hur.  I thought that most of the movie was rather depressing, but the ending really redeemed the whole movie.  I will try not to give to much away, but let's just say that it helped me appreciate Jesus' death.  We are saved not only by His resurrection, but also by His death.  Of course I knew that, but something inside me clicked last night, and I began to realize how much Jesus' death really did.  I still don't understand suffering, but I feel like last night Jesus' suffering made more sense to me than it ever had before.


Well, I'm not sure if that all made sense or not.  Anyways, it gave me a new appreciation for reconciliation as well, for I had just gone to confession before we watched Ben-Hur.  It suddenly occurred to me that the last couple times I have gone to reconciliation, it seems that I have made some spiritual connection or just felt closer to God. Took me longer to figure that out than it should have, I know, but it is cool, and hopefully I can go to reconciliation again before too long.

Deep Thoughts for Spring

Spring: it's almost come!  Here in Minnesota the temperature was up to 39 degrees F, at least at my house, and such warm weather brought down bikes, scooters, trikes, and roller blades.  While watching my little siblings and neighbors out enjoying the heat (and yes, I was out there, too) I began to see the situation as I believe that St. Augustine might have; precisely, why do we humans like to ride on wheels so much?  Cars, motorcycles, go-carts, tractors, four-wheelers, golf carts, and of course all the above-mentioned recreational vehicles seem to attract us somehow.  Is it the smooth gliding along?  (And if this is so, why do my roller blades have any appeal?)  Or does the speed call to us?  Well, whatever the reason, I am glad that the wheel was invented, and I am sure that I will continue to make use of it for my entire life.