Two Thoughts

Every day they continued to meet together in the temple courts. They broke bread in their homes and ate together with glad and sincere hearts,… (Acts 2:46)

Dear Friends,

As we enter a new Lenten season, I want to share with you two thoughts from two different people. I want to ask you to begin with reading Acts 2:46: “And day after day….” Encouraging sincerity of the heart, re-charging with simple meals and loved ones, fellowship, the Bible, and may I suggest adding classical music into your “bag of tools” to re-charge.

Two sentiments I want to share are copied and pasted from two amigos. The first expressed that “I had a dream that my Mom came to wake me to say… ‘This has all been a Dream.’” Can you ponder and absorb that sentence? I found it simple and yet profound. The visual of a loving mother waking a young child peacefully from slumber. This thought is soothing to the author as life is very difficult for him. One can relate to that wishful dream if one has empathy for the author in regards to that this life is not what God intended.

The second, copied from Steven Osborne: “What does music mean?” Steven Osborne, an intermediary for me with expressing how profound classical music can be in one’s life. The post on his website states: “Last year I gave a lecture at St. Magnus Festival called ‘What does Music Mean?’, an attempt to explore the mysterious and wonderful phenomenon of that shared silence which can build up in successful concerts.”

I humbly ask you to contemplate both sentiments from two different people with Acts 2:46 as your lens. My hope is to provide an up-building and refreshing moment for you during Lent.

Sincerely,
-Meg Fotakis