This week is Holy Week for us Orthodox Christians, a time when we completely immerse ourselves in those staggering events that occurred 2000 years ago. Yet we don’t just look backwards. As we move through this week, we gaze forwards to the beautiful future on the horizon that Christ’s work has guaranteed. And the journey from here to there is one in which we cooperate with God at renewing his beautiful world, repairing the brokenness, refocusing the distortion and reconciling all that are estranged.

Photo taken with a Canon PowerShot A620 in Oak Glen, CA.