Ash Wednesday
Lent 2010: A Season for Listening
Ash Wednesday- Listening for God
“Be still, and know that I am God!” – Psalm 46:10
Lent is a time of voluntarily dwelling in the wilderness in response to the call of God on our life. This is a time of facing down our demons and overcoming our addictions.
We are a people who seek to be filled with things so that we do not notice the hunger that fills us. We seek to be distracted as not to notice our loneliness. We choose to be insulated and forgetful as to ignore that we are continually visited by pain and haunted by memories of the past that was, the present as it is, and the future that could have been.
We have chosen to experience life for these forty days with out the props and crutches that make life easier but empty. May we begin in the silence of this moment. May we be reminded in our reaching for the things comfort, that there is healing in this time of denial. May the struggles of these day remind us how removed we have become from God and our true selves.
Today our work is to do nothing. We are faced with the struggle to be still and silent. We are not to speak in prayer, but to listen. We listen not with our ears, but with our hearts to the God that is present with us even now and forever. – Rev. John Mattox
Let us Pray,
Lord, our strength and protector,
even in the midst of the broken world,
your love surrounds us.
Help us to remember,
though the world may shake
though the wind may blow,
though thunder may roll,
You alone are our God.
Let us hear your voice.
Amen.
-Rev. Katie Mattox
