Purple Lent

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This Lenten season, we are celebrating in colors at Jeff Street. Each week, we'll worship in living color and this week's was purple, or violet, if you prefer. Some quotes, then, on finding God (or not) in purple.

I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.... People think pleasing God is all God care about. But any fool living in the world can see it always trying to please us back.

~Alice Walker

Larry-Boy: Drop the asparagus!
Fib: Why don't you come and make me, little purple man?
Larry-Boy: If that's the way it's gotta be...

Who do they call when Bumblyburg's in trouble?
Who's got the suit with super-suction ears?
There's no need to panick, 'cause this guy's manic,
And you know that he'll save the day!
You need a hand, he's right there on the double
Hey, hey, he's on the way
Purple and yellow! He's one super fellow!

~Assorted quotes from Veggie Tales regarding the Purple and Yellow Avenger: Larry Boy

Come to the woods, for here is rest. There is no repose like that of the green, deep woods. Here grow the wallflower and the violet. The squirrel will come and sit upon your knee, the logcock will wake you in the morning.

~John Muir

Red Lent

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This Lenten season, we are celebrating in colors at Jeff Street. Each week, we'll worship in living color and this week's was red. Here, then, is an excerpt from a song by Steven DeGeorge, in which he mentions a red bicycle...

He’d walk on into church like he owned the place,
and they wouldn’t see much more than the dirt upon his face.
And then a man would come and ask politely if he could show him to
the exits
but He’d walk right past and take the podium.

He’d say, “Blessed are the poor mechanics blessed are the miners’
families and
blessed are you who help the least of these.
And woe to you whose wealth is blinding; for you the kingdom will
be like driving through the eye of a needle in a white-washed SUV,”

…and they’d get mad. They’d get angry.
But I don’t know. I don’t know. I don’t know.

Well just outside of Morgantown it threw a rod, the truck broke
down,
and He sent His friends ahead and they hitchhiked.
They found a room and just like He said there was a Schwinn and it
was red, and
they brought it to Him and He rode triumphant in.

Hosanna man, lay your flannel down. He’s ridin’ in, put your shirt on
the ground.
Hosanna man, lay your flannel down. He’s ridin’ in, put your shirt on
the ground.

Orange Lent

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"Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you and the storms their energy, while cares will drop off like autumn leaves."

~John Muir

(I'm thinking the sun and autumn leaves must surely be orange at times, yes?)

"I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o'er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze."

~William Wordsworth

(IOkay, so the "golden daffodils" are probably yellow. Sue me.)

Yellow Lent

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This Lenten season, we are celebrating in colors at Jeff Street. Each week, we'll worship in living color and this week's was yellow. Sue offered a wonderful thoughtful moment of how she has found God in the smell of lemons, in the blooming of yellow flowers in a golden spring.

Along those lines, I offer this little poem...

GoldFinch

I've seen him twice now,
this American Goldfinch.
Not a rare bird, perhaps,
But certainly near extinction in this
urban jungle yard of mine.
His bright yellow feathers warm me
with a hope that my garden,
my yard,
my city
can be reclaimed
and that nature can once again be
welcome here.

-dt