Beloved Community,
Grace and peace to you. As March unfolds, we continue our journey through Lent and prepare our hearts and minds for Holy week.
Our Lenten theme this year — Tell Me Something Good — may feel almost out of place in a season that invites reflection, repentance, and honesty about our need for God. And yet, perhaps it is exactly what we need.
Lent does not ignore the wilderness. It walks straight into it. But even in the wilderness, God is at work. Even in the waiting, even in the dry places, even in the questions — there is good news unfolding beneath the surface.
Each week in worship we will be listening for that good news — sometimes small and seed-like, sometimes surprising and abundant. We are practicing the holy art of paying attention. Where is grace showing up? Where is hope breaking through? Where is Christ meeting us in ordinary, everyday life?
As we move toward Holy Week at the end of March, the story deepens. We will walk with Jesus into the upper room, to the garden, to the cross, and finally to the empty tomb. It is a story that holds sorrow and beauty together. It is a story that reminds us that God’s “something good” is not shallow optimism, but resurrection life that breaks forth even after death.
You are invited to join us for this sacred journey:
- Palm Sunday, March 29th as we wave branches and shout “Hosanna!”
- Maundy Thursday, April 2nd as we gather at the table and celebrate first communion.
- Good Friday, April 3rd as we stand at the foot of the cross.
- And Easter morning, April 5th when we hear again the astonishing good news that love is stronger than death, that love is alive in our world.
If Lent feels heavy for you this year, know that you are not alone.
If you are in a season of waiting, or wondering, or simply holding on — the good news is that God is already at work.
May this month be a time for us to dig deeper into community. May this month be a time when you hear — perhaps in an unexpected way — something good.