Kyknet Lent Guide 2022Sample

“The Lord had said to Abram, “Go from your country, your people and your father’s household to the land I will show you. “I will make you into a great nation, and I will bless you; I will make your name great, and you will be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you, and whoever curses you I will curse; and all peoples on earth will be blessed through you.” So Abram went, as the Lord had told him; and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he set out from Harran.” (Gen. 12:1 – 4 NIV)

• Just as God called Abram, each of us are called to perform a certain task.

• To hear the voice speaking to you and to understand what it is saying, is a journey.

• To say yes to this calling, means saying no to a lot of other opportunities. The reward, however, is very great.

The price of disobedience, is also great.

Through the stories and awakenings of great spirits, you are invited to awaken and commit to your own calling this week. You are invited to listen to today’s sermon on the subject, to read each day’s scripture and to live each day with the proposed question.

VARIATION ON A THEME BY RILKE

A certain day became a presence to me;

there it was, confronting me--a sky, air, light:

a being. And before it started to descend

from the height of noon, it leaned over

and struck my shoulder as if with

the flat of a sword, granting me

honor and a task, The day’s blow

rang out, metallic--or it was I, a bell awakened, and what I heard was my whole self

saying and singing what it knew: I can.

- Denise Levertov