March 3, 2010

The season of Lent has become, for me, about setting new rhythms to the way I see life, do life, and think about life.  For the past three years, I have used, along with about fifty of our High School Students, a little guide called Sacred Space to help move and motivate these rhythms.  Each week, there are two or three short pages that we read each day and then a passage of Scripture that goes with each individual day.  This week’s daily repetitive readings include these words:

“Everything has the potential to draw forth from me a fuller love and life.  Yet my desires are often fixed, caught, on illusions of fulfillment.  I ask that God, through my freedom, may orchestrate my desires in a vibrant loving melody rich in harmony.  In the presence of my loving creator, I look honestly at my feelings over the last day, the highs, the lows, and the level ground.  Can I see where the Lord has been present?”

Last night on the way home from working at the food bank, my four year old Kirah said, ‘I wish I could see God!’  We talked a bit about this in the car, but as we were putting the girls down for bed it was this ‘Lent Rhythm’ that helped us see the invisible God.   We looked thoughtfully at our day…the highs, lows and level ground…you’ll never believe what who we saw…

Nate