Create in me a clean heart, O Lord!

In Prayer, Prepare for a Holy Week

Friday, April 16, 2010


This has been a wonderful season to gather the Busy Hands Pre-School children to the front entrance and invite them to tell what they see in the second of our two stained glass windows - "The Sower." Mark 4:1-20

They have taken notice of the bright colors. First, the waves of browns and greens representing the soil. They note that area fields feature similar lines as soil preparation and planting has begun. The bright blue sky and birds above. The sower, strides across the ground with the deep green bag of seed hanging at his side. Some see him as a farmer. Others are certain it is God or Jesus. Not one seed, but a handful are scattered across the ground. The sower is generous, even extravagant.

Unable to wait for harvest season, we step outside and take in what God has already made to grow - spring trees are full of purple and white blossoms; grass stretches out like a rich green carpet with a few yellow dandelions; tulips show themselves; and rosebushes wait to reveal their beauty. And there is so much more as we lift our eyes to the neighborhood.
God has already been generous, extravagant!

The children return to the classroom where they will imitate God in planting seeds, in showing generosity.

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