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Because the forty days of Lent don’t include Sundays, it’s easy to let it slip by….On Sundays we might notice the change in the colors of the altar cloths and banners,, maybe a couple of changes in the liturgy…but Sunday worship is filled with confessions and forgiveness, with life offered in gospel and water and bread and wine…and it’s easy to let the days roll by, without living Lent. Without remembering that light is only known when we have experienced darkness. Without understanding that we can only delight in life if we have known death. Without celebrating that God’s power is greater than human will.

 

Don’t let Lent slip by.

 

In faith,

Pastor Sue

 

Lent is

Forty days until Easter,

Not counting Sundays.

 

Lent is actually

Six and a half weeks

Of very violet repentance

And very purple passion

 

Lent is

Watching a man go to his death

And not being able to stop it.

 

Lent is

Helping send him

To the cross.

 

Lent is

Knowing this

And letting it sink in.

 

Let is

Not getting off

The hook.

 

Lent is

Taking sin seriously,

Taking life seriously,

Taking death seriously, taking everything

More seriously than usual.

 

 

 

Lent is,

Among other things,

Having to wait for Spring.

 

 

Lent is

Six more weeks

Of shivering

In the cold.

 

Lent is

Not a very happy time,

But it is what

You have to go through

To get to Easter.

 

(The Second Season, Wayne Saffen)