LENT

We are like a small candle that can bring light into the darkness.

Lent is a time to allow the light to burn deeper into our souls as we seek to learn "the mystery" of a faith that burns quietly within us. The unknowing that will always have unanswered questions has a silent beauty that speaks when we take time to listen. Christianity has become many things to many different people. We who believe long to reach out to touch those who have been hurt by religion or who have so many questions and doubts they have no energy or desire to listen not to what the world teaches but what the spirit would say.

Lent is a time to walk with Jesus prayerfully; to allow our hearts to become soften and our wounds to heal, in the light of grace. Most of us hold our pain very close inside us and yet we all have words that have hurt us or people who have rejected us. Jesus gave his life to give us words to live by and the power to believe. Jesus, a man of passion, wants to light a burning light of faith in our deepest darkness.

There is so much that I am still learning because I will always be a child of God with a spirit of rebellion as I question the evil in the world and find my foundations shaken by reality. The hardest thing for me is when children are abused and the world turns a blimd eye. So many people have no right to speak for God because they have an agenda that often blinds us to the truth.

Jesus is alive and the words he speaks are life-restoring. We are to take our light into the hurting world and see the holiness in the poor and the neglected, the sad and the lonely.