This is morning, I am struck by a couple of passages from Holy
Solitude:
Heidi Havercamp writes of the wilderness that Jesus entered
into just after his baptism. Wilderness is a scary place…full of things that
can harm you, no one to talk to and little food to sustain. One cannot help but
feel vulnerable and exposed. “It draws prayer out from us in both awe,
discernment, help or lament.”
“If Lent is a time for us to imitate Jesus’ forty days in
the desert, then it should be less a time to suffer and endure and more a time
to grow in this kind of wonder and vulnerability. Engaging in prayer, fasting,
and almsgiving are not about punishment; they help us transcend
ourselves—finding greater intimacy with God and greater clarity about who we
are. These three practices are also disciplines of solitude, forms of
self-denial or self-emptying to make more room in us for God."
"Lent is a wilderness set in time.”
How is this wilderness time so far?
Comments are encouraged
....jrg 2/15/18
Wilderness is a scary place, however, compared to our daily environment, you are away from city noises, traffic, hustle and bustles of life..... you are closer to nature, to where we are reminded of God's Creation. Sometimes, this brings you closer to God.
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