As we draw nearer to Holy Week, the
question for us becomes this: Has our
Lenten journey taught us to stay
the course? Has it taught us patience? Hope? Has it drawn
us to long for God and to share in God’s longings for our world in the midst of
the most normal day-to-day reality of our lives? Have the practices of Lent led us further in love, in a self-giving love in our day-to-day
life? Has our Lenten fast revealed to us
the real ability to delay gratification in a culture that screams to us of
immediate needs and wants? Has our offering,
whatever we have given for the benefit of others, been the grain of wheat that
produces much fruit? Has it created
community in a world so hungry for interconnectedness?
So often we hope for key moments that will turn us around, epiphanies that will reveal great truths to
us. Yet God has always chosen to work in subtler ways, in the sacredness of
daily tasks and conversations that gradually begin to help us to be in the presence of another. It is in the sacredness of the daily where we too learn obedience, where we
learn not to be afraid, neither of the new nor of the ordinary, where we become
willing to risk loving in such a way that we might even be accused of being a follower
of Christ.
Something is being written on our hearts this Lent. May it not remain just a grain of wheat.
--Jessica Kerber,
ACI,
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