[re]imagine Lent: 4/2/2023
We encourage you to sign up for the 40-40-40 Lenten Challenge, a challenge with our partner Southeastern Iowa Synod to participate in Lenten practices, including these daily devotions. Just signing up counts as participation! More info here.
Prayer
Hosanna! I praise you God, for your saving grace. I praise you for giving me Jesus, your son, who suffered with and for us all. Open my heart and mind to all that it is to be human, that your word might sustain me and empower me to speak that same word to all you put in my path, that the world might come to trust in the resurrection and redemption of all creation.
Amen.
Journal Prompt
As we prepare to enter into Palm/Passion Sunday, I invite you to reflect on the ways that this day encompasses a wide spectrum of human experience: from praise to denial, joy to fear, and palm waving to stone throwing. How have you experienced Jesus’ presence with you in all these times of your own life? How might God be calling the church to reimagine how we talk about this reality with even more and new people?
Week Five Devotions by Rev. Erika Uthe, uthe@seiasynod.org