New look!
I went up to COSTCO on my day off on Monday. I didn’t need a case of toilet paper or a new flat screen TV (although there were some really nice ones, someone tell Amy that would be a nice birthday present prior to the NCAA tournament), I wasn’t even looking to get a bunch of free samples. I went rather to get my eyes checked. I’ve been complaining to Shawn that he needs to make the words bigger on the screen in the back of the sanctuary. I can’t read the words to the hymns, can’t read the prayers. I thought he was making them small and blurry just to annoy me. Turns out it’s not him, it’s me. It’s my eyes that have changed. I got a new prescription ordered and I went and ordered new frames. Mine have become so crooked after a number of years. I’m told my new glasses will be here in about a week. I told my kids it is going to be a whole new me, with a whole new look, seeing the world in a whole new way.
We enter into the season of Lent this coming week. Lent is a 40 day period of preparation for Christians as we get ready to celebrate Easter. It is a time when we try to be more intentional about our faith and enter into spiritual practices and disciplines that can help us see ourselves and our faith in a whole new way. Scripture reading, Bible study, prayer, and acts of service are just some of the ways that can affect the way we see the world. When we put on Jesus and begin to do the things he told us to do it can be like getting new lenses and we begin to see ourselves and the world differently. Sometimes we aren’t even aware that we’re not seeing things clearly. We think somebody else is to blame when our life isn’t going the way we think it should. I hope you’ll join us at Ash Wednesday services as Lent begins and we put on new glasses and we each start with a whole new look that will lead us to a new and vibrant life of faith.
