What’s pink?  My colored pencil color for the last section of readings in Bible study.  According to Jeff Cavins, this period (The Church) is supposed to be white, to represent the spotless bride of Christ. 

Have you ever tried to highlight with white colored pencil?  Doesn’t work too well.  So I had to pick another color.  I picked pink.  Why pink?  No, not because I am a girly-girl, because, if you know me, you know that that is far from the truth.  First, I was looking for a color visually different from the other colors I have used thus far in my Bible.  Second, pink (rose, for those of you who cringe just at the word….) is the color of the robes that are allowed to be worn on Gaudete Sunday in Advent and Laetare Sunday in Lent.  “Gaudete” meaning, roughly, “rejoicing.”  And to designate the period of “The Church,” being Acts and everything following it, what better color to represent it?  Shouldn’t we be rejoicing all the time after the Resurrection?  (And, yes, there’s that period between the Resurrection and Pentecost, but according to the Bible study program, that is categorized under “Messianic Fulfillment,” and the apostles were still scared and hiding, until they were filled with the Holy Spirit — so I think they were really rejoicing after Pentecost….)  🙂