Holy Week Musings
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We're in the middle of Holy Week. Lent is wrapping up and soon it will be Easter and I can enjoy my chocolate and wine without guilt. I have not made this a very Holy Lent. I usually TRY to be reflective. I usually focus on the season and what it means (with various degrees of success). This year...well I'm just not "feeling" it. I've been going through the motions. I haven't focused on the season; I've just gone through it. It probably has something to do with the fact that I'm feeling the loss much more this Easter than I have for other holidays; my parents have passed and my son will not be coming home for the holiday. My father was always one to buy me a chocolate bunny for Easter; it was a given. Last year when he was not well enough to even do so online, I bought him chocolate bunny ears in the rehabilitation facility that he was in at the time. (I'm not sure if they ever got eaten.) And this past Monday I attended a service where w