¯¯¯¯
Intro
Each week, this
devotional for the forty days of Lent will consider passages, mostly from the
Hebrew Bible, that stress God’s love for diversity. Each weekday the devotional reading will
consider one particular aspect of that week’s Scripture readings, concluding
with a prayer.
Our emphasis throughout
will be not so much on the negative—that racism and exclusion are unacceptable
(although of course they are!)—but on the positive: that God has created us in
all our racial and cultural and sexual
diversity, and that God loves and values us in and for our differences, not in
spite of them.
On each Sunday, the
Gospel for that day from the lectionary will be presented without comment. You
are invited to meditate on these Gospel readings by observing the spiritual
practice of Lectio Divina. This
Christian discipline involves reading the Gospel slowly and carefully,
attentive to what is said, and also striving with a Spirit-inspired imagination
to be present within the narrative.
God bless you as you
read, reflect, and pray through this season of repentance and preparation.
God's peace,
Steve Tuell
|
