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On Friday we launched my new podcast The Liturgical Rebels. It has been an thrilling few days. I’m overwhelmed by the variety of you who haven’t solely listened to this primary episode, but additionally inspired me together with your phrases of affirmation and eagerness to learn the following episode. I’m very grateful for Melissa Kelly and Forrest Inslee with out whose assist it will by no means have seen the sunshine of day. I really like the fascinating folks I get to interview and the brand new alternatives it’s opening up for different involvement in God’s work.

As we transfer in direction of the second Sunday of Lent nevertheless, I notice that including a giant new venture like this to my life additionally means relinquishing a few of what I at the moment give my time and vitality to. As I commented in yesterday’s Meditation Monday: Relinquish, Let Go  “Lent is about relinquishment. It confronts us with our mortality, our vulnerability, our ambitions. It confronts us with how significantly we’ll comply with Jesus into the long run. “ It’s a good season to mirror on exhausting questions like these I posed yesterday “For love of God, for love of the world and for love of myself and my interior wellbeing what am I keen to surrender?” They’ve very severe penalties for my life. I recognize your prayers as I grapple with this, as a part of what I’m rethinking is my involvement with godspacelight.com and I hope to have the ability to hand the useful resource centre which I do know so a lot of you depend on, over to another person.

I’ve additionally determined to cancel the Lenten Quiet Day on March 2nd. There are various different related choices accessible and I really feel it isn’t the most effective use of my time. My apologies to these of you this will likely inconvenience. I’ll nevertheless nonetheless facilitate the Spirituality of Gardening webinar on Might 11. I’m actually trying ahead to this occasion, which isn’t only for gardeners, however for anybody who likes to get out and expertise the surprise of God within the pure world. The backyard has seemingly never-ending classes to show us about God and what it means to be an individual of religion. We learn in regards to the miracle of the fish and the loaves within the Bible however expertise a miracle each time we harvest God’s bounty. We learn in regards to the demise and resurrection of Christ within the gospels, however expertise it each time we plant a seed within the floor and watch it burst into life.

In her Freerange Friday: The Invitation of Lent Half 2 Lilly Lewin reminds us {that a} Lent invitations us to be current with Jesus within the wilderness. She feedback: “My concern usually blocks my religion. The bitterness of the world will get below my pores and skin and I develop into prefer it, sadly extra hateful fairly than extra loving.” I believe that is so true for all of us.

In Embracing Lent: A Religious Journey with Scripture Memorization Playing cards Hilary Horn reminds us of the ability of scripture memorization as a observe throughout this season.  As she says, By committing these verses to coronary heart, we open ourselves to a richer and extra profound expertise of Lent, in the end drawing nearer to the non secular renewal that Easter guarantees.

I hope that you’re totally engaged on this journey by means of Lent, taking time for reflection, introspection and outreach into God’s world. I pray that you simply too will take significantly the questions I’ve posed for this season and permit God to liberate you into relinquishment. Let me finish with a part of the poem from yesterday’s Meditation Monday which was impressed by my studying of Cole Arthur Riley’s Black Liturgies, as a result of I believe that this an essential focus for all of us at the moment.

Keep near your interior world,
Journey slowly by means of the hidden corridors
Of your coronary heart.

Pay attention quietly not for solutions,
However for the questions
Hiding beneath the stress,
Of your uncertainty.
Don’t be afraid,
Of what you’ll uncover,
Of what you would possibly relinquish,
In case you develop into trustworthy
With your self.

Many blessings

Christine Sine

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