When Jesus spoke about the wine and new wineskins, he makes an observation that most of us are happy to just keep drinking the old wine.  Would I choose an old wine in an old wineskin if I could have something new?  Maybe I would if it meant having to let go of the old in order to become something new, different, and unknown.  

Luke 5:36-39 NLT

I'm spending some time working through the events of Holy Week, and realizing how important the death part of the story is in order to celebrate and live in the new life part of the story...dying not for death's sake, but for Life's sake.

Sometimes we get handed what appears to be random pieces of puzzle.  But as we begin moving those pieces around, a larger picture begins to form.  Today feels like work on a puzzle without a clear picture of what I'm creating but it must fit together somehow. 

Teaching by Scott Swanson at the Grove which I reference can be found here: https://youtu.be/kfxJeOQKkuE

Sitting on the beach, watching the waves come in and go back out, I wonder if our emotional shifts are also part of a dependable rhythm we can count on.