Lenten Devotional Series
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My Kind of People
by Deon Fayhee
Lent is said to be a time of personal introspection between Good Friday and Easter. A timed but open note test on who you are and how you wish to be in the world. Are you consumed with worldly strife; sure. Do you feel close to your fellow man; too close thanks. Can you go without coffee for six weeks; oh, you’re serious.
When Easter rolls around we pass the blue books forward and collectively affirm we are an Easter people, cut to the trumpets and spiral ham. It’s a parade, an egg roll, an end zone dance on mortality’s home field with fresh cut flowers. Hope wins. Good Friday was dark, cold and scary and a pessimist’s definition of life. No one aspires to be a Good Friday person except on cable TV.
For me, lent is not a choice between which of these extremes to embrace but a time to reconcile both in our lives. The world provides us the bitter and the sweet. Acid and base if you will with too high a concentration of either preventing growth.
An Easter people have not forgotten the fear and pain of Good Friday’s loss so much as risen to love while always mindful of that loss. Easter’s songs of joy and the acts of peace acknowledge our opportunity to live indeed.
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