This morning was "Spring Forward". I thought about this beforehand last night and when I woke up. The boys and I got going and made it to Church on time. We I got there and Father James gave me a handshake as if to thank me for being on time. The congegation was small today.

Or readings were about God giving us new life from death and sin.

when I open your graves and have you rise from them,
O my people!
I will put my spirit in you that you may live,

The middle reading spoke of being raised from Spritual Death.

Those who are in the flesh cannot please God.
But you are not in the flesh;
on the contrary, you are in the spirit,
if only the Spirit of God dwells in you.
Whoever does not have the Spirit of Christ does not belong to him.
But if Christ is in you,
although the body is dead because of sin,
the spirit is alive because of righteousness.

The Gospel was the story of Lazarus raised from from the dead. I see several more lessons in this pasage than I have seen before.

The apostles were afraid that they would be killed if He went back there but He renewed in them the belief that He is the one who has power over life and death. I think this passage ties the story to an application in this life not just in the afterlife.

“Are there not twelve hours in a day?
If one walks during the day, he does not stumble,
because he sees the light of this world.
But if one walks at night, he stumbles,
because the light is not in him.”

Also in Martha he renewed her Faith:

Jesus told her,
“I am the resurrection and the life;
whoever believes in me, even if he dies, will live,
and everyone who lives and believes in me will never die.
Do you believe this?”
She said to him, “Yes, Lord.
I have come to believe that you are the Christ, the Son of God,
the one who is coming into the world.”

Father Barry said that Lent is a season of resurrection of faith.

Today's Daily Reflection was again synchronous as these three months have been:

SURRENDERING SELF-WILL
March 9, 2008
Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him. TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 34

Today I renew my Decision. I turn my will and my life over to the care of God as I understand Him.