Tuesday, February 16th (Shrove Tuesday)

Today would usually be a time of celebrations and fun – Mardi Gras and all the associated activity of hilarity.  This year it was different for most of us, I think. The era of the Big Event is temporarily over. And perhaps that’s no bad thing.  Events were getting bigger in every way – the Super Bowl crowds, the evangelical mega-churches, you name it. It seems almost fitting that the Capitol rioters enacted a mob scene at the very time when such things were already obsolete.

Perhaps it’s time for those smaller, gentler celebrations, ones that honor the heart and not the noise.