Rain or Shine. Entering "ordinary times"

photo: “Spring Rain” by A. Furchert

The whole week monsoon-like rain poured down here on our little town in MN, drenching all and everything under layers of liquid. It started on Pentecost when the flood gates of heaven opened after a week of humid heat, sometimes hard to bear. After it was finally over blue skies appeared like nothing had happened. 

As I love the fresh snow I love the refreshing rain. It leave everything brimming with metaphor and new life. 

And what better time than the time of Pentecost, to open the flood gates of heaven refreshing our exhausted spirits? For the church year it is also the time when the Easter season ends and we enter back into "ordinary times".

And though we have not been in church forever I find it's seasons always helpful to help us structure the year:

As Christmas is not a day but a season thus it is with Easter. And for many wise people both feasts carry the same soul movement: 

• We enter a stage of preparation, Advent or Lent.

• We enter into the feast …