A woman at a well asks Jesus for water and he gives

her deep sight. “If only you recognized God’s

gift.........you would have asked for..(deep sight)..(Jn 4:10) A pilgrim seeks restoration and respite. Jesus invites her to see her story with new eyes, to re-story her life. Re tu r n ing f rom p i lg r image to Primavera, ice and snow remain, not less, not more. Warmed, slabs of snow skid off the roof on the up-hill side of the education center/garage encasing a pile of wood logs waiting to be split. The force of the sliding snow creates a dense snow mountain that may likely last well into the spring. (I’m

betting there will be some small piece even in June.) Right now, the mountain is a child’s delight for one could easily scramble up onto the roof, be king or queen of the

mountain. “Allow the possibility” is a “tag”

friend Mark signs with his name. Re-storying o u r l i ve s al lows fo r hav ing a n ew relationship with our experience without changing the facts. The winter is colder than ever, spring having a hard time being birthed, but the gift and grace of it is a longer winter to rest and rebuild, to be still and allow the inner workings of stillness in Christ to heal and restore us. Restore us to fullness and freedom of life, isn’t that why the observance of lent is valued? If we allow it, a yearning to be made different this year wakes up in us. Week after week, gospel stories of Jesus healing invite us to see our lives from a new perspective, to allow new possibilities. To his disciples, Jesus says, “Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep. I’‘m going to wake him up.”

Sleepwalkers awake! It is time to wake up and put on the mind of Christ as we perceive our life. Story telling is s matchless way to change the picture. What else is gospel living than a trail of stories! Stories abounded in our days among the communities that birthed Primavera in Maryland and DC. One night at Woodside residence, on Dayspring farm, a circle of new and old timers captured the stories of that piece of land stretching from its formation during the ice age, to its common food source for three indigenous tribes groups, to the origins of a stream and a gospel people. Stories streamed forth of a time to secure a “cash crop” to sustain the land, of being ringed by massive suburban growth, of keeping the 200 + acres as sacred sanctuary, of dreams of keeping it resilient in the face of hungry development and empire values. Not far away, a sister community, a church in an inner city black neighborhood tells other large-minded stories of resilience is the face of empire. Pressured by the voracious beast of “gentrification”, the community and neighborhood is undergoing rapid change. A wild dream of God arises to gentrify the poor by building a condominium high rise for low-income people on church property. Re-storing at its best. Lazarus dies. His family grieves. Jesus weeps. Lazarus is called back from a deep sleep, from the good-as-dead. His return, his waking up gives a fatal blow to the case arising against Jesus. Or does it! Perhaps, what seems fatal, allows possibility. “Those who go walking by night will stumbles because there is no light in them.” (Jn 11:10)

No light in them! Allow the possibility that the stories to capture are of the “light in them”, of living in Jesus, living into and within him. These are the stories of

www.primaverapeace.org! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! March 29, 2014

April 6 5th Lent Ezekiel 37:1-14 Psalm130 Romans 8:6-11 John 11:1-45April 13 Palm/Passion Isaiah 50:4-9a Psalm 31:9-16/118:1-2, 19-29 Philipians 2:5-11 Mt 21:1-11/ Mt 26:14-27:66

W I N D O W S : Soulful Glimpses into Primavera

ALLOW THE POSSIBILITY

receiving grace and abundance, the stories that transcend vision. Perhaps this is the day to play “King/Queen of the Mountain”! A day to receive what is! (Not wish for what is not yet, bare ground!) The day, with a child’s heart, to climb to the top of snow and ice, even scramble onto the lean-to roof and remember stories of grace and abundance.

PRAYER CONCERNS FOR:EDEN mission group Dayspring Church, furthering call & possibilityNew Community Church & Manna dream of God for housingJonathan Noll for inner/physical healthDayspring Church- Permaculture project, New Chapter choices, vision of the whole for land & Wellspring CenterEmployment for those searching for right livingPrimavera Holy Week Retreat & for holy week celebrations on the landCarol Fitch for clarity & ease in making living choicesMary & Paul McKay as return to Colorado & travel to Primavera for retreat

Susan Morley