How'd it get to be Holy Week Already?

Even I can’t believe how long it’s been since I wrote in this blog. Long like the entire season of Lent. I guess I should have just said back on Ash Wednesday that I was giving up blogging for Lent; then I'd end up looking all spiritual and virtuous. But of course, that’s not what happened. I didn’t give it up in any laudable attempt at spiritual simplicity (much less a spiritual attempt at simple laudability). I just didn’t have the right combination of time and energy—mine or Senelec’s—during this past, well, nearly forty days.

 And it’s not like there’s nothing going on—in fact, it’s really like the opposite. Visitors and Meetings (and even the occasional Meeting with Visitors) more or less non stop for the months of February and March, with brief interruptions for an annual Church Assembly, electing a new President of the Lutheran Church of Senegal, finishing of my DMin thesis, the total reorganization of the church-based development work here, and several trips to Linguère, Gorée, Fatick, Mbour, Thadiaye, Loul-Sessene…well you get the picture.

So here’s what I’m thinking: in the next few days, I’d like to take a look back at last two months—February, the month of Visitors, and March, the month of Meetings. After that, this particular Lutheran in Senegal will try to live in, and report on the present, with an eye toward the immediate and more long-term future that’s been starting to unfold for quite a while within our modest participation in the missio Dei here.

Thanks, as always, for your patience and understanding.

 Peter