Listen to Your Life This Lent
“Listen to your life. See it for the fathomless mystery that
it is. In the boredom and pain of it, no less than in the excitement and
gladness: touch, taste, smell your way to the holy and hidden heart of it
because in the last analysis all moments are key moments, and life itself is
grace,” wrote writer and theologian, Frederick Buechner in his autobiography Now and Then.
The season of Lent is a journey. It’s a time, if not
physically than spiritually, to go for a walk in the wilderness. In the
wilderness, there is space to wander and let oneself be in tune with all that
comes from God. In the wilderness, we see the hand of God upon all things
because it’s time apart from the hurry and rush of life. In the wilderness, there
is room to contemplate and examine our paths to which we are called.
Lent is a time of self-examination, of putting on glasses to
see clearly our sin and how we stray from God. Lent is a time where we can
listen to our life; reflect on our relationship with God; and recognize, as
Buechner suggests, that all of life is a gift of God’s grace.
Listening to our lives, journeying with Jesus to the cross,
can be troubling and exhilarating both at the same time because the Spirit is
moving within us and our sin is laid out before us. But when we reach the cross
where Christ takes on our sin, we find that the end of our journey is not
really the end. The empty tomb is just the beginning.
God's Peace,
Pastor Percy
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