This is the best pop. Period. Don't even start to dispute this statement unless you've tried it.

Since apologizing for not blogging enough is so passé, I'll skip it and wow you with...photography!

This is a large portion of our team enjoying a sunny Sunday on Long Point. The asparagus has been shy in coming this spring, so we have spent two weeks of odd jobs - repairing irrigation lines in cherry orchards, splitting firewood, painting, and cleaning out old barns. The weather the last few days has been stunning and I spent a portion of my Sabbath frolicking about the sand cliffs of Lake Erie, communing with God.

The asparagus might be late in coming, but God has been growing in all our hearts at an intensity that has shocked us all and taken us off guard. I heard a number of comments today along the lines of "I can't believe it has only been a few weeks." Keep praying for unity and for God to reveal to us what He is preparing us for and drawing us to.

I'll leave you with this quote from Thomas Merton's New Seeds of Contemplation, since he is a far better writer than me, which touches on what God has been showing me:

"In all the situations of life the "will of God" comes to us not merely as an external dictate of impersonal law but above all as an interior invitation of personal love... We must learn to realize that the love of God seeks us in every situation, and seeks our good. His inscrutable love seeks our awakening."