Lent - Day 10

"Faith is not a matter of certainty but of courage...Nothing important can be imposed by coercion."

                                                                                              -- Catherine Keller

Lent - Day 9

"Popular Lent is too occupied with guilt and repentance...Lent is rather seeing how to take steps into God's future so that we are no longer defined by what is past and no longer distracted by what we have treasured or feared about the present..."

                     --Walter Brueggemann (A Way Not Our Own)

Lent - Day 8

"The only way to make rapid progress along the path of divine love is to remain very little and put all our trust in God."

                                                                                  --Therese of Lisieux

Lent - Day 7

                           LOVE

               JOY is Love revealed

               PEACE is Love received

               PATIENCE is Love waiting

               KINDNESS is Love extended

               GOODNESS is Love shared

               FAITHFULNESS is Love present

               GENTLENESS is Love listening

               SELF-CONTROL is Love suffering.

                                     --Nita Steiner (Galatians 5:22,23)

Lent - Day 6

 "God's affection for you runs deep 

...and you will never be forsaken."

                                                                                     ---Jonathan Foster

Lent - Day 5

Love is patient and kind

Love is never jealous

It does not brag or boast

It is not puffed up or big-headed.

Love does not act in shameful ways

Nor does it care only about itself

It is not hot-headed

Nor does it keep track of wrongs done to it.

Love is not happy with lies and injustice

But truth makes its heart glad.

Love keeps walking even when carrying a heavy load

Love keeps trusting

Never loses hope

stands firm in hard times.

The road of love has no end.

                                   I Corinthians 13:4-8. (First Nations Version)

Lent - Day 4

"Above all, trust in the slow work of God...

It is the law of all progress that it is made by passing through stages of instability...

...and that it may take a very long time."

                                                                                    --Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Lent - Day 3

 "...we are called to depart, to trust the new life, and to find space and energy for a life of full shalom, to live apart from the system of pharaoh. This story has many futures..." (Exodus 8:16-18)

                                             --Walter Brueggemann (A Way Not Our Own)

Lent - Day 2

"The crescendo of the New Testament is the statement in 1st John that GOD IS LOVE.

...the mystery of God is the excess of divine love, so you need not fear what you don't know and understand..."

                                                                        --Eberhard Jungel

Lent - Day 1

"We are being chased by God's powerful love... 

Lent is a time to quit running, to let ourselves be caught and embraced in love, like a sheep with safe pasture...

(Our life) is to be an embrace but that entails being caught by God."

---Walter Brueggemann in A Way Other Than Our Own