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| Along the Way 3-26-10 |
 Early each Thursday morning the street sweeper visits the Ardsley Park neighborhood and the rotating brushes weave around the parked vehicles, collecting leaves, twigs, trash, acorns and sweet gum balls. The city streets would quickly become impassable without this service.On yesterday morning’s bike ride I noticed a detail I must have missed on previous Thursdays. Evidence of the mechanical sweeper remained on 49th Street in the shape of five distinct gently swirling watery lines resembling an undulating music score without the notes. Seeing those graceful, rolling lines gave me an immediate lift, reminding me that I prefer a gently rolling life to that which sharply rises and falls. To be sure, each life includes its share of exhilarating highs and discouraging lows and sometimes we even long for a jolt, a sharp break with the past. Some people are happier when life careens along like Mr. Toad’s wild ride, but for me the gentle contours of life are far more pleasing, or as the psalmist observed in Psalms 16:6 (NRSV), “The boundary lines have fallen for me in pleasant places.” News of Celebration Sunday: We had such a victorious and stirring worship service last Sunday, and the news from our commitment cards is very good. If you haven’t yet made a commitment, please do so this Sunday so that we can make a final announcement in a week or so. I’ll see you this Palm Sunday. Those who come to early church will meet in Calhoun Square at 8:30 to receive palms. At the 11:00 service our children will assemble in the narthex prior to the service to receive their palms. Oh yes, and our children will enjoy their Easter Egg Hunt at Wesley Gardens this Sunday at 4 p.m. |
