March 21, 2023

 Yesterday was the Vernal Equinox. Here is what Mark Twain says. “It’s spring fever. That is what the name of it is. And when you’ve got it, you want — oh, you don’t quite know what it is you do want, but it just fairly makes your heart ache, you want it so!”

I mean, I’m thinking about St. John’s in the Virgin Islands while it is 26 degrees in the early Central Virginia morning. I think spring fever is God’s implant. You yearn for something more, something thrilling, something that makes you feel deeply. If that kind of life didn’t exist, then we wouldn’t yearn for it.

“The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life and have it abundantly.” (John 10:10)

“Gracious Father, whose blessed Son Jesus Christ came down from heaven to be the true bread which gives life to the world: Evermore give us this bread, that he may live in us, and we in him; who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.” (Fourth Sunday in Lent – BCP)