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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We must truly look to him, look at him, and discover his look of love at, for us
“God, who is rich in mercy, because of the great love he had for us, even when we were dead in our transgressions, brought us to life with Christ (by grace you have been saved).”
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Be open to God, working extraordinary things in ordinary ways
Be open to God doing many, many, many extraordinary things in ordinary ways in our lives!
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God’s ‘wrath’ and ‘jealousy’ cries out for something much more deeper
The sacredness of the temple becomes a sign of the sacredness of the “temple” — our body — in which grace and Spirit and God reside.
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Our Lenten journey should be deeply interwoven into the rhythms of our lives
Let our offering be as precious as Abraham’s as we offer up to God what is most precious to us: our control and our desire to have life only as we would want it.
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The word made flesh has been baptized, seared into our hearts, souls
Let those who have eyes let them see. Let those who have ears let the hear. Let those who have hearts, let them know the Lord!
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Lent means going into the desert and letting go
It is precisely in our nakedness and emptiness, weariness and loneliness that we most find our God.
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