Ash Wednesday

There's so much happening this week: SuperTuesday, Chinese New Year, the beginning of Lent. A monumental week in our year of 2008.

With so much happening, it's nice to have a reminder to slow down and think about the bigger picture. And to have a reminder that, though things seem chaotic right now, Easter is coming: the promise of rest, hope, and renewal. It's good to have a reminder that time still goes on, that God's redemptive work never ceases in our lives, though it we may not see it clearly.

Not that I want time to move much faster than it already is ... already I'm realizing how this semester and last semester seem to run together in my mind. We're already five weeks into Spring 2008; in less than three months I'll have graduated! And as much as I look forward to that day, it's also a scary one ... the ending of this chapter of college in my life and the beginning of a new one, the content of which is unknown. Still, just as God is sovereign in this period of my life, I trust that he will continue to be faithful through the next.