“The person who looks for quick results in the seed planting of well-doing will be disappointed. If I want potatoes for dinner tomorrow, it will do me little good to go out and plant potatoes in my garden tonight. There are long stretches of darkness and invisibility and silence that separate planting and reaping. During the stretches of waiting, there is cultivating and weeding and nurturing and planting still other seeds.” (Eugene Peterson, Traveling Light)
The season of Lent affords us the opportunity to engage in the work of growing deeper. The words of Eugene Peterson speak of the possibility of such spiritual growth, and the work that we are to do – often in silence and separation - as we prepare for Easter. We seek to grow deeper so that we will rise higher in the days ahead.
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