A great day yesterday as we experienced Sunday in then Park in the Fellowship Hall! We will also be continuing our month long study of what it means to have 'enough'.

In the meantime... Julian of Norwich (1343-1413) Julian is the most popular of the English mystics. She lived as a benedictine nun in Norwich, beside the St. Julian Church, from which she most likely took her name. She wrote a book called Revelations of Divine Love, which was one of the first popular works written by a woman. She wrote about wanting to know God more completely.

"On the year 1373, on May 13, God gave me a three-fold revelation. This was his gracious gift to me in response to my desire to know him more. The first was a deep recollection of his passion. The second was a bodily sickness. The third was to have, of God's gift, three wounds.

As to the first, it seemed to me that I had some feeling for the Passion of Christ, but still I desired to have more by the grace of God. My wish was to have been present with those who loved Christ and were with him at his passion so that I, with my own eyes, might have seen the passion which our Lord suffered for me, and so that I might have suffered with him as the others did who loved him. I never desired any other sight or revelation of God."

We sometimes approach this strong desire to more fully understand the passion of Christ during the Lenten season, but there will never be a bad time for reflecting upon just how much God has done on our behalf through His Son. There are football games every weekend at the college and pro levels and Halloween will soon be followed by Thanksgiving which gives way to Christmas. And Jesus died for you and me.... Again we remember to start with the basic truths of our faith.

Have a blessed week!