Dear Peace Church Family,
wil·der·ness
This Lenten season, we will journey in the wilderness together, knowing that God does good work in our wild, wandering hearts when we meet him there. The weeks before Easter give us a chance to surrender our will to God’s and to allow God to shape and form us for the ministry ahead. We’ve been to this wilderness of Lent before, maybe, but each year we find ourselves called there again to ponder faithfulness, obedience, and dependence of God all over again.
There are different ways to meet God in Lent. Some Christians fast during Lent, considering the discomfort, inconvenience, or suffering caused by not eating a particular food or participating in a particular activity and finding a tiny bit of solidarity with Jesus in his fasting and enduring. Others fast and choose to meet God in what is lacking, praying during times that would otherwise be filled with desserts or screen time. Some Christians add disciplines during Lent, making extra time to pray or read scripture, or seeking a way to give their time and resources to those in need. Some Christians are simply more thoughtful about their faith and church participation during this season and make time to observe the markers of Ash Wednesday, Lenten Sundays, and Holy Week.
However you choose to enter the wilderness, I pray that at the end you will know you have met God and allowed him to bring order and new life in the areas that have been neglected or abandoned.
Grace and Peace,
Pastor Becky
wil·der·ness
- an uncultivated, uninhabited, inhospitable region
- a neglected or abandoned area
This Lenten season, we will journey in the wilderness together, knowing that God does good work in our wild, wandering hearts when we meet him there. The weeks before Easter give us a chance to surrender our will to God’s and to allow God to shape and form us for the ministry ahead. We’ve been to this wilderness of Lent before, maybe, but each year we find ourselves called there again to ponder faithfulness, obedience, and dependence of God all over again.
There are different ways to meet God in Lent. Some Christians fast during Lent, considering the discomfort, inconvenience, or suffering caused by not eating a particular food or participating in a particular activity and finding a tiny bit of solidarity with Jesus in his fasting and enduring. Others fast and choose to meet God in what is lacking, praying during times that would otherwise be filled with desserts or screen time. Some Christians add disciplines during Lent, making extra time to pray or read scripture, or seeking a way to give their time and resources to those in need. Some Christians are simply more thoughtful about their faith and church participation during this season and make time to observe the markers of Ash Wednesday, Lenten Sundays, and Holy Week.
However you choose to enter the wilderness, I pray that at the end you will know you have met God and allowed him to bring order and new life in the areas that have been neglected or abandoned.
Grace and Peace,
Pastor Becky