Fifth Sunday in Lent

I am spending this week at the beach with my grown children. I spent the previous week with my girlfriend Diane from California, showing her some of the best of the Southeast from the mountains of Asheville to the coast of Charleston. I am tired from traveling and not being at home. Yet I see in these last two weeks one of the small calls that God places in lives. Not a call to vocation, but a call to serve nonetheless. I have sacrificed personal creative time to give my time in the service of those near and dear to me. I have been about the business of creating respites for others apart from the demands of their daily lives. As you listen to your life speak, don't forget to listen to the small calls, the little temporary calls of daily living.