This Sunday is Palm Sunday which begins Holy Week. Usually by this time (Thursday before Holy Week) I have everything ready. Bulletins printed, symbols located and cleaned, vestments freshly washed and pressed, homilies began. And this year? Not much has been finished.
To make things even more interesting, last night I missed the bottom stair outside and turned over my ankle. It’s swollen and bruised. I can walk on it, albeit slowly. I had plans to finish many things today and as I realise just how injured I am, I realise that I won’t be completely ready for Holy Week come Sunday. I will be ready for Sunday, and that’s enough.
The bulletins for Sunday, Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday are finished and at the Printer’s. I need to pick them up, which I will do when I have to go out this afternoon.
The bulletins for Thursday/Friday/Saturday and Easter Sunday will likely not get finished until Friday or Saturday and will be picked up at the Printer’s early next week. And that’s okay.
Usually every year I undertake a significant project at the Church…rearranging furniture in the office, etc. Not this year. This year, I am going to finish a couple of smaller projects at home. Finding the surface of my kitchen counter top and dining room table. Putting the winter woolens away. Taking the coats for dry cleaning. Getting my house better prepared for Spring.
I’m not sure if it’s the medication in good alignment, a spiritual maturity or a realisation of aging gracefully…I don’t have to have everything done well ahead of time. Yes, it is my preference, but as the philosopher Jagger said “You can’t always have what you want…but you’ll find sometimes, instead, you get what you need”.
My spirit as of late has been battered. My body is bruised. But I am not broken. I am fragile, I have been fractured, but I am not broken. And that is something!
Barefoot Bellringing 
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