Lenten season

As many Christians look forward to the Celebration of the Resurrection, the next 40 days are spent in reflection on our needs.  Jesus spent 40 days in the wilderness and was tempted. We often see our situation and the larger communities in which we live as wildernesses.  In Isaiah 43 the Lord promises to send rivers in the wilderness.  We wait (and work) with pregnant expectation for those living waters to flow in the desert areas where we live.

“See, I am doing A New Thing..now it springs up,”  – We need it – we hunger – “Do you not see… I am making a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert.”

The name A New Thing comes from this part of the Bible, this promise of restoration.  We want this place to be a part of what He does to bring life and light to the darkness.

I will begin Lent by  meditating  on Is. 43 and the need for those living waters in our land and my own life.