I'm very excited for tomorrow. We get to have a Seder dinner with friends and then go to a contemplative service tomorrow night with another pastor and his family at a church that neither of us go to! We, as families, get to be fed and experience this Holy Week in community. What a gift! I pray that out of the overflow of that, we'll all be able to better serve our own community and also our own churches as we usher others into the presence of God, through conversations, meals, the Stations of the Cross, a reflective Good Friday Service, and ultimately, Easter.
I love that we get to do this as a family, and that my boys get to see first hand their friends' family do it too. I love to see this lifestyle of focusing ourselves around Christ slowly take root in our boys. It's amazing to hear them, totally on their own and with zero prompting from us, come up with things to fast from until Easter this week. Yes, it's not a full Lenten experience, but come on, they're 8 and 5. 6 days is pretty great! I love hearing my boys walk around the house singing "Joyful Joyful . . . I got the joy, I got the joy, I got the joy, I got the joy," and knowing that the reason for that joy is because of what Jesus did! So again, I'm very excited to be sharing this with my boys and with friends, and I pray that we'll steward our time in community together well, we'll be an encouragement to one another, and we'll be able to model and pass on to our kids the value of sharing things of faith with others.
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