Texts: Psalm 6; Mark 8:31-38
Many of us when we were children looked forward to Easter, not for its spiritual significance, but for the treat of the Easter Basket. Filled with everything from jelly beans to the chocolate Easter bunny – and don't forget those gooey marshmallow chicks – they were a veritable sugar high. Of course, they included colored Easter eggs, but who wanted decent protein when you could gorge out on sugar and chocolate?
Ah! Chocolate. That's what many people "give up" for Lent, which is supposed to be a time of penitence and all that goes with it – prayer, fasting, the works. But chocolate didn't even become a part of European culture until the sixteenth century when the adventurer Hernando Cortez presented some cocoa beans to Charles V of Spain. Cortez had figured out that if t...
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 "He has told you, O mortal, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?" MICAH 6:8 NRSV |
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