Timberline Old Town

During the lenten season, we are using the book Pauses For Lent by Trevor Hudson as a guide.  TEXT John 8:2-11 BENEDICTION The True Love by David Whyte There is a faith in loving fiercely the one who is rightfully yours, especially if you have waited years and especially if part of you never believed you could deserve this loved and beckoning hand held out to you this way.   I am thinking of faith now and the testaments of loneliness and what we feel we are worthy of in this world.   Years ago in the Hebrides I remember an old man who walked every morning on the grey stones to the shore of baying seals,   who would press his hat to his chest in the blustering salt wind and say his prayer to the turbulent Jesus hidden in the water,   and I think of the story of the storm and everyone waking and seeing the distant, yet familiar figure, far across the water calling to them,   and how we are all waiting for that abrupt waking, and that calling, and that moment we have to say yes, except, it will not come so grand