Taking a Leap

God saw all that he had made, and it was very (Genesis 1:31 NIV)

The calendar is a good thing. It helps us to track the seasons and mark special events and plan for the future. But it is not perfect...thus we have today, Leap Year Day. You see, the solar year is actually closer to 365.25 years long, so we need to add a day every 4 years to keep the calendar on track with the seasons.

BUT... Did you know that doesn't completely fix it? We have to go a little further and NOT have a leap year on every year divisible by 100 EXCEPT for those years that are divisible by 400 whereby we do add a day...(which is why we had a leap year in 2000).

We took an idea that was very good, but flawed (the calendar) and made it work for us (leap year).

God created the world and found that it was very good. But he gave us free will which allowed us to mess it up. But God had his own "leap" in mind to make it work for us in spite of our every effort to the contrary. We know God's "Leap Day" as Ressurection Day... The day that God took the natural order of things as we know them and turned them upside down. God made life work for us by removing death.

Father,
Thank you for the giant LEAP you took by giving your Son to die for us and raising him on the third day. We look forward to celebrating this very special Leap Day in a few more weeks. Amen.

Joys: last day of February and Spring just around the corner; a long but satisfyingly productive day yesterday; friends