A Thought for the week
Week of February 22
 
Rend your heart and not your garments. Return to the Lord your God, for he is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger and abounding in love, and he relents from sending calamity. Joel 2:13
 
This last Wednesday was Ash Wednesday, the beginning of Lent. Lenten time is a time of growth and rebirth. Like the seasons though, growth comes from death. Where winter the trees lay dormant, spring brings about the buds and beginning of the leaves. We return to “death” and lifelessness; return to where we started, in the ground and ash of the earth. From God, Adam was created. In God we are created into new life in Christ. Like this passage from Joel, return to God. Return and grow.