Lent Journey - 2016Sample

DAILY THOUGHT: REMEMBERING WE ARE LOVED You and I are not accidents. We have been loved into life by God. We are here because God wants us to be here and has something for us to do. Lent is a time to remember this, to receive our life again as a precious gift and to think more about what our unique mission in this life is. One of the most quoted verses in the Bible affirms this fact that our lives really do matter – “God loved the world so much that he gave his only Son, that everyone who has faith in him may not die but have eternal life” (John 3:16). We recover our passion in life when we take time to remember and to dwell on this gospel-fact about ourselves: We are God’s joy and delight! DAILY PRACTICE: Take some time today, perhaps just before going off to sleep, to imagine your mother pregnant with you. Think of her carrying you for nine months and then eventually giving birth to your existence in this world. In that moment a new reality entered this world that had never existed before: you! The same God whose love had brought into being this entire universe, the stars and the sun and this earth, now brought into being the miracle that is your one life. Give thanks for your unique life that matters so much to God and allow God’s delight in you to penetrate your heart.