Do you form warriors with easy, peaky, weaky words; or do you shout out commands to toughen and roughen them up?
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Like Jesus, are we capable of and open to emptying ourselves?
Let us do Lent so we can do Easter and be renewed as disciples of Jesus Christ!
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God gives good advice, but do we take it?
Since everyone at some time or another needs healing, presumably we are very lucky and no doubt very comforted with Jesus’ words.
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Fasting much go much farther than just ‘giving up something’ for Lent
And fasting, the kind the Lord wants, repairs the heart and opens the heart to see with love, to be truly human and even divine.
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When the kingdom comes into, among us, we are ‘walking with God — hand in hand’
And as God describes himself in that hand to hand walk: “I will never let go!”
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Let the journey begin
Are we ready? Are we willing? Are we open?
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We are all invited into the journey of the cross
And, no doubt — year after year, trial after trial, sorrow after sorrow, challenge after challenge — the journey just gets better and deeper, and it ironically and wonderfully produces more love.
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If I were forced to pick one expression that best summed up the spirit of Lent it would be: “Renew us, Lord!” This is a time of grace and love. This is a time not of “being alone” in the desert, but quite the contrary. This is a time of allowing God to be so present, so totally present, that our lives will be made new through his love. This is God’s time. This is a time of grace.
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The Passion of Christ helps shape our way of thinking
This is why the church seeks to think through and attempt to communicate logical, thoughtful and wise ways to live our lives as Christians.
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Embrace dying within so that new life may emerge
This, of course, goes far beyond Good Friday and Easter Sunday. We are a Paschal people who embrace this not on just a couple of days, but as a way of life.
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