What is it that you are about?

“There are two moments that matter. One is when you know that your one and only life is absolutely alive and valuable. The other is when you know your life, as presently lived, is entirely pointless and empty. You need both of them to keep you going in the right direction. Lent is about both.” - Richard Rohr 

What is it that we are going to be about this Lenten Season? What is it that we are going to be about on Easter morning? What is it that we are going to be about after the resurrection?

We live in the season of Lent to prepare for what is to come on Easter. We are walking the journey to the cross with Jesus and inevitably towards the resurrection of Christ. We read about those 40 days and we know that Jesus was tempted in many ways to change who and what he was about. He was offered much land and power yet he refused. He was tempted to turn stone into bread but never strayed from the mission.

You and I are living, this Lenten Season, in a time of temptation and trial. We are living in a season and in a world where each and every day we are tested. Each and every day, you and I, will rely on God to persevere through the storm.

When Jesus told Peter to step out of the boat and walk out to him, Peter did so, but as he got closer he began to sink out of fear and doubt. He was tested by the wind and waters and he took his eyes off Jesus. He took his eyes of the mission and the calling. In Peter’s time of “wilderness” he sunk, but nevertheless, Jesus remained to accept Peter in the condition he was in and rescued him from the waters of fear and doubt.

What is it you are going to be about this Lenten Season? What temptations will you be faced with on a daily basis? How will you overcome these temptations? What will be your wilderness?

Dear God,

We have been on this journey

from Bethlehem to Jerusalem many times before.

We understand the pace of it, the sounds of it,

the beat of it, the rhythm of it,

the ultimate destination of it.

But we are not all at the same place on the journey.

Easter on the calendar may not be Easter in my soul.

Some of us have no home of our own;

Our Community of Faith has scattered;

Some of us are too much separated from our families.

The storms of life have upset the order of our souls.

I am drawn, however, to be a part of the journey.