A CONSPIRACY OF GRACE
Perhaps Lent is a conspiracy of grace – an invitation to receive and witness grace that is deeply humbly as well as expansively freeing.
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DEEP CALLS TO DEEP
This season, I sense a deep cry inside that gently but persistently calls me to return to the desert. Here, my soul can shed the false illusions and willfulness that ruled me.
MOURNING BECOMES GLADNESS
Lent is for rediscovering that we are created for the inextinguishable flame, not for ashes that immediately disappear.
RELUCTANT PROPHETS
Fear is often present when facing the unknown. However, if we let fear govern, we will only find ourselves running from the good.
THIS IS HOW YOU ARE TO PRAY
Sometimes, all I can do is trust in my Father, who art in Heaven, whose will and plans for me are better than I could ever dream.
POVERTY OF HEART
Perhaps what my husband or wife lacks, what my children lack, what my parents lack, is not clothes or food. Perhaps they lack love, because I do not give it to them.
ON BREAD ALONE
No matter how much we are able to accomplish by our own will, true contentment and peace will only come from resting in the assurance that God is always present in our lives.
GRACIOUS DISCIPLESHIP
Perhaps instead of wondering about how we are to follow Christ, we may reflect on the gift of this invitation to discipleship.
THE FASTING GOD WISHES
For a long time, I missed the deeply communal dimension of self-denial: to enrich others.
LISTENING INTENTLY
How am I to make time this Lent to pause, to listen, and to notice God moving in my life?