Palm Sunday.

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Dear Sweet Friends,

My Lenten journey looks very different this year. I haven’t done any studies or read any books like I have done in the past. I have just kept it pretty simple with only focusing on Ascension’s The Rosary in the Year podcast with Fr. Mark-Mary. Now having spent over 100 days with Mary and the Most Holy Rosary, I have had such a spiritual shift. Don’t get me wrong it has given me so many gifts, but also has been pretty difficult as I mentioned previously. The pivotal peeling back of the layers of my far from perfect humanity. A true reminder of the today’s present culture of anything goes impact and how we all bombarded with so many distractions. Lent for me this year has been the opposite, finding the silence among the noise of everyday life. But, again it’s not been easy, I am sure you can relate if you too are on your own Lenten journey.

But, like the picture above I took last Fall outside my work. I found a fleeting ‘silence’ in the rustling of the palms as I looked up at the beautiful blue Texas sky. Remembering my childhood trips to St. Mark’s lighthouse with my Dad on the Florida coast and even the memories of Palm Sunday’s Mass past’s with my parents. That enduring sacred symbolism of the Palm Leaf in my view.

Then after I took the photo with all my memories, my present surroundings came back. I was in a parking lot full of luxury cars where inside their owners were buying goods I can never afford. Ok maybe I a lipstick or two:)

But, as I sit writing this… pulling this all together in the first days of Holy week. I can’t help think of my Mother’s wisdom. “Always try to keep one foot in Heaven with one foot here on Earth.” The balancing act of Faith. I feel like holy week, when we walk with Christ into his Passion. We have a chance to dip both feet in Heaven’s understanding during this time. What a blessing, but never easy. But, it’s the least we can do.

Love and Blessings,

Cynthia