Song: Come Back To Me
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INTO
THE WILDERNESS
The
Invitation of Lent
Song:
Westen Priory – “Hosea: Come Back to Me”
“Come back to me, with all your heart.
Don’t let fear, keep us apart.
Trees do bend, though straight and tall
so must we to others call.
Long have I waited for your coming home to me
and living deeply our new life.”
Hebrew Scriptures: Deuteronomy 8. 2-3
Remember
how
the Lord your God led you
all
the way in the wilderness these forty years,
to
humble you
and
to test you
in
order to know what was in your heart,
whether
or not you would keep his commandments.
He
humbled you,
causing
you to hunger
and
then feeding you with manna,
which
neither you nor your ancestors had known,
to
teach you that people do not live on bread alone
but
on every word that comes from the mouth of the Lord.
REFLECTIONS ON DESERT
Adapted from Ron
Rolheiser’s Lenten Devotions “Daybreaks”
The desert empties
you. The idea is not so much that you do
things there, but that things happen to you while there – silent, unseen,
transforming things.
Your job is only to
have the courage to be there. The idea
is that God does the work, providing you have the courage to show up.
The desert, Scriptures
assures us, is the place where God is especially near.
The desert empties
you. It re-gestates the soul. This emptiness is a womb. It re-molds the soul and lets us be born
again.
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