Loving Strength of My Life: We are promised that there is a stream by which we may grow leaves in every season. We are promised that there is water available that will enable us to flourish as human beings if we drench ourselves in it day and night. Yet we are confronted by great difficulties in our daily lives. Sometimes it seems impossible such growth or flourishing could ever be. This is the purification of the desert. This is where wilderness is the means to surrender, and surrender is the way to abundance. The ancient paradox is made personal when we try to love one another: whoever wishes to come after me must deny their very self and lose it in order to gain it. Help us, Lord. We wish to use this Lenten journey to undo a lifetime of self-love. Forgive us for the ways this self-love wounds the very ones we wish to love. In and through Christ we pray. Amen.
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