Surprised

"My times are in Your hand.." Ps 31: 15 Last Epiphany Friday

I had forgotten the part about Lent where: one is led. Lenten practice isn't just us doing and not doing; it is discovering the Living God moving in our lives. Our prayers and observances are more than a personal project that we are trying to put together oh so perfectly. We are, to put it clumsily, God's project.

Today, the Living God through His servant Paul and the mediation of Christ in community says: 'REJOICE!' Right at the beginning of the penitential season, we are to go in rejoicing.

Rejoice, as the great prayer of Jesus in John 17 declares: We're His! And oh yes, we're sent, sent into the world. We are here for a reason.

And through Ezekiel we can rejoice to hear, "You can turn and live."

Every year this surprises me, that with the Holy Spirit there is always more.