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What an 8-day week this is – more good to great stuff than one often finds in a couple months!  It starts with Palm Sunday, one of my favorite annual celebrations.  Then comes our Maundy (Holy) Thursday Journey to the Cross at noon and in the evening (check out the virtual experience here and then make plans to join the live-better-than-virtual experience today:  https://www.stl-eastpointe.org/2022/04/04/welcome-to-journey-to-the-cross/).

Holy Week and Easter are such a special time that I am still glowing with an emotional high nearly a week later.  It is partially the nearly 400 people who worshiped with us on Easter (when you add together Sunrise, Festival, and 144 online views) – the most we have had in a single day since before the pandemic.

On Tuesday evening Monica and I entered into an interesting week – one that is filled with additional responsibility … and great joy.  It started with us packing our suitcases and moving out of our condo, traveling about ten minutes to South Offshore Drive.  However things really got underway once Matt and Rachel, with bags packed, headed to Metro Airport for a weeklong journey across the sea.  The increased responsibility comes with two names, Brooklyn and Andi, with whom we will be living for the week.  Fortunately, God is merciful … not only are they wonderful grandchildren (aren’t they all?!), but we also get the weekend off to rest our (I expect) weary bodies!

Earlier in the week, as I was sensing my own initial weariness of the winder, someone mentioned to me how they are starting to go stir-crazy.  As the week progressed, the same theme was presented to me by a wider spectrum of people in a variety of ways.  So I did a little math on the situation and came to conclusion that I find very personally helpful:  Winter starts on or about December 21 and ends on or about March 21.  This makes the mid-point of winter to be TODAY – February 6.