by Marcia Mount Shoop
Mark 1:9-15
“The life of faith enmeshed in the created world–in the beauty and the brutality–that is the Lenten journey– who are we in relationship to God and to each other and to the rhythms of life and death. Lent encompasses the whole of human experience–and we remember that Jesus was fully engaged in the cruelty and the courage of what it is to be human, in the shadows that can vex and torture us, and in the spirit that rises again in the morning.
And this home we are traversing toward is a complicated imaginary. Can we ever really be at home with ourselves and each other in a world so at odds with itself?
To find God’s home for us, parts of us have to shed, parts have to die, parts have to be revealed and healed. The Lenten journey is deep self-reflection and mindful questioning of ourselves. How are we moving? How are we living? And what is the impact of our living on others? What needs to change? What needs to take hold in us for our faith to be healthier?”
Watch the full GCPC service on 2/18/24 here
(Scripture and sermon begin at 51:25)