Prepare

Prepare for the new year
Prepare for a new job
Prepare to meet friends
Prepare for University
Prepare to Learn
Prepare for love
Prepare for tragedy

Prepare for God(?)

Life gets busier and busier each year. I used to think that high school was crazy, and then I went to university.
A teacher once told me that "High School was year long marathon, Uni was just an all out sprint"

I'm in my 3rd year now, and I'm still in awe about how busy everyone is at this time of the year. Its hard to make room for it all. Some things get left behind. Somethings we just can't do because there aren't enough hours in the day, seconds in a minute and days in a week.

What things get left out? The house work? New years resolutions? Study? Time with friends and family? Even God?

I have to admit I've left all those things out from time to time. Society likes us to be busy. It makes us look productive. Or so we think?

How do we prepare? We buy books, food, train tickets even new computers. But how do we prepare for God? For Easter? When his only son dies for what we did. When God's only son not only dies for what we did (and will do), but also rises from the dead. I mean that's a pretty big thing.

So is this what lent is for? Forty days to try and come to terms what happens. Easter isn't a Hollywood movie, where the director keeps you guessing the ending right up to the final seconds. No. This story was written 2000 years ago, the ending hasn't changed. Yet still to this day we can't come to terms with what this one event means. A complete stranger, who we've never met, basically dies for our freedom. Jesus did it willingly.

I was brought to church for the first time when I was 3 weeks old. I've been going ever since. So why would I need forty days to prepare for an event that happened 2000 years ago? I know what happens. But this is why I want to prepare. Because I know what happens, I know how to prepare. (Well I like to think that I know how to prepare).

Our lives are so busy with everything in them, that time just melts away. So I'm using these forty days to try and claim back some time for myself and to give some of it to God. After all, He's the reason why we are here. He makes all things new.

<3 Squeak