For those who attended our First Annual Game Night last night, I hope you all had a good time. For those who missed it, we had a number of games that people brought and played, plenty of snacks, and we even burned some old palms from last year. It was a fun way to close out the Epiphany season and have our own little Mardi Gras celebration. That festive feeling, though, now gives way to the penitential season of Lent and the Ash Wednesday services of today.
Today
we pray that God will create and make in us new and contrite hearts. Today we are invited to a season of
self-examination and repentance; a season of prayer, fasting, and self-denial;
a season of reading and meditating on Holy Scripture; and a season of
reconciliation and forgiveness.
On
this day we are also reminded of our mortality: Remember that you are dust, and
to dust you shall return.
On
this day we are called to make a right beginning.
During
this season of Lent, may you find time to explore the wilderness, may you
identify that which pulls you away from God and set that aside, may you find
that which draws you closer to God and pick that up, may you rend your heart and
not your clothing, and may you be restored to wholeness of body, mind, and
spirit.
Ash
Wednesday Services will be held today at Saint Luke’s at Noon and 6 pm. Both services will include the imposition of
ashes and Holy Communion.
May you have a holy Lent
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