New Vintage Village & the Lent Blog...
Ironically my first season of blogging coincides with my first serious observance of the season of Lent! I've given up popcorn this season, which seems small, but I typically eat a bowl of popcorn 3 or 4 nights a week while I veg out in front of the T.V. I depend on that divine snack food in a strange way. Heather and I went to see 'Amazing Grace' at the theatre last Friday night and the smell was like torture for me...especially when we left after the film was over and I saw a bag of popcorn sitting a few seats away that the owner had only eaten a third of!!!
So I've been reflecting on today's scriptural passage Matthew 26:36-46 where Jesus goes to pray at Gethsemane which is the Greek transliteration of the Hebrew for 'oil press' which, of course, refers to olive oil in particular. And oil naturally makes me think of popcorn because you can't make popcorn without oil! I just finished writing a lengthy blog at our house church's Lent blog sitehttp://www.newvintagefusion.wordpress.com and for the second time I somehow clicked on the wrong thing and lost it all!!! It was damn good too. Full of deep theological and cultural points of interest, and of course a healthy dose of my rather verbose tendency to make sure I really get my point across. So I'm finding it ironic that I can't even write about Lent at our lent blog site, nor am I sure whether or not this blog will work...so if you're reading this, then you are indeed blessed because I finally got something published in the blogosphere.
However, perhaps the Holy Spirit was sparing me the embarassment of publishing something just a bit over the top. I don't know if it was mercy or torture (or just plain techno-savvy-less-ness on my part), but I'm sure not writing that thing again...at least not today.