In our Christian tradition we have a sacred calendar—a way of marking time through the course of the year by telling the story of Jesus Christ. There’s a secular calendar to coordinate our lives within a secular age, and there’s a sacred calendar to form our lives through the gospel story.
We let the rhythms and rest of the Liturgical Church Calendar guide our seasons at Life Abundant, beginning with Advent and weaving a thread throughout the rest of the year.
We are on a 40-day journey towards the cross. The great and steady descent, we call it. This is a season of quiet consideration and honest reflection on our fatal flaw. From dust we came, and to dust we will return.
We are all going to die, but in fidelity to Jesus, we are learning how to die daily. In doing so, the final day of our earthly life will be no death at all.