Lent is upon us. I usually enjoy the lent experience because it lets me really settle in and be conscious of my faith. This year however, Lent is hitting a little harder. I am choosing to be conscious of my faith, but I am also having to be conscious in my trusting God.
I took a leap of faith some years ago, with a long distance move. I really thought that, was it for us, and we settled.
But God, has used everything in my life lately to say it's time to go. Time to resettle. It's not a long distance move this time, (within an hour) but it does mean starting all over when it comes to a church and a social network. It's thrown years of theology education into question, and honestly probably my own place within a church I thought I knew and loved.
When we choose to force people out because their lives don't look like ours, when we choose to keep holding people down because they don't make a 10OK a year, can and actually live in the margins are we really doing what we're called to? Are we following Jesus?
I realize now, that it wasn't so much God was pruning, as God was rescuing me.
He's breaking cages, of people the church has tried to restrain. Keep within their lines.
And really, there is no better time. We have never needed people like this more.
If certain churches, diocese and church leaders burn because of it than I think that was a necessary part of God's plan.
God is bigger than one church. Or one set of rules the church chooses to govern how, when or why it helps people.
Knowing that I continue to give space for God to work, to pray, to continue with the plan for loaded ministry shelves, bible studies, prayers, devotionals, a Jesus centered focus, and a community minded heart.
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