In Lent, we’re reminded that, again and again, suffering and brokenness find us. We doubt again, we lament again, wemess up again. Again and again, the story of Jesus on the cross repeats – every time lives are taken unjustly, every time the powerful choose corruption and violence, every time individuals forget how to love. And yet, in the midst of the motion blur chaos of our lives, God offers a sacred refrain: “I choose you, I love you, I will lead you to repair.” Again and again, God breaks the cycle and offers us a new way forward.
This Lent is no different – we come to God again and again with our prayers, our dreams, our hopes, and our doubts. Even if from a distance, we will continue to be community to one another – especially when it’s hard – by choosing each other over and over again. We will continue to love God with the same persistence God chooses and claims us.
Join us this Lent as again and again, we bring all of who we are to God and trust that God will meet us, time and again, along the way.