As we journey through these Lenten days and nights, as we relive the challenges facing Jesu and his disciples, may we have the courage to also face our own challenges and our own worries, knowing that new life awaits. May we have the wisdom to accept this gift of 40 days to quiet the voices that would take us off track, to push aside the fear and anxiety that would distract us from our mission and our calling. Let us move to a quiet place for awhile so that we can hear, and then amplify, God’s song of new life, over the noise of our world.
