Dear Ones,
Today is Ash Wednesday, and a new season has begun. The season of Lent invites us to see how our liturgical rhythms and themes are not mere metaphors. They often closely reflect our lived experience. Instead of shying away, I invite us to interrogate the ways in which our journeys into wilderness, or how our wrestling with temptations for power and self-sufficiency draw us closer to or away from our loving God.
The busyness of our lives is real and our paying attention will require extra intentionality—especially when there is so much chaos and uncertainty in the world. I invite us to pay attention to how God is seeking to restore and nourish us when we are exhausted and parched.
My prayer is that you would know the blessings of deep community and have opportunities for reflective silence as we experience Lent and all that life brings our way. God will accompany us through it all and resurrection always meets us on the other side. Have a blessed Lent.
Faithfully,
Bishop Jennifer Baskerville-Burrows
