08. Jul 2025

Zagare - Buivydžiai

Photo 1: There are a lot of storks in this region.

Photo 2: Morning prayer group at the Catholic Church in Zagara...

Photo 3: Walking through the plains of Lithuania...

Photo 4: Three goats and wild flowers...

Photo 5: A Lithuanian bee in flight...

I shared a room at the hostel in Buivydžiai with Ernestas whom I met briefly at the hostel yestetday evening. He is a teacher of ethics and philosophy. I showed him my photo from the Sisyphus Rock that was posted in the blog from June 29th and explained why Sisyphus finally stopped rolling the rock when he came to the coast of Latvia: It was just too "absurd" to try to swim across the Baltic Sea and keep rolling the rock at the same time. I then gave a theological twist to the subject line: God gives us saving grace in Jesus. How absurd is it to then try to achieve this grace by doing good works? We can either keep trying to push the rock, or stand on it and rest. Jesus invites us to find our rest in him, who is the Rock of our salvation.

We had a great conversation...