On Saturday we held a Lent Lunch, eating a simple meal together then a service of quiet reflection in the sanctuary using readings, prayers and music.
It was a good time together and much appreciated in days which are for some very busy, too busy; for others days fraught with increasing ill health; or news of difficulties and challenges facing those they love and care for.
The first reading was from the Little Book of Lent
“Lent first directs our thoughts to the image of the desert, the one in which Jesus spent forty days of solitude, or the one that God’s people crossed by walking forty years.
Yet when these weeks before Easter returned, Brother Roger, Prior of the Taizé Community, liked to recall that it was not a time for austerity or sorrow, or a period to cultivate guilt, but rather a season to sing the joy of forgiveness. He saw Lent as forty days to prepare to rediscover little springtimes in our lives.”
Let us take the time this Lent to look for little springtimes in our lives, in the past, and through each day as we keep going through whatever lies ahead of us.
