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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)
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