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LIVETHEFORTY

February 27, 2009

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This past wednesday marked our entering into the Forty days of community reflection and examination known as Lent.  We’ll be encouraging you all to engage fully in Lent - to LIVETHEFORTY - through engaging Spiritual Practices and considering the significance of “metanoia”.  

Metanoia is the root word used for ‘repentance’ - meaning to change your mind, shift directions, change your course.  Repentance comes in the form of  fundamental shifts that we must undergo - these massive and ongoing reorientating “shifts” occur in our worldview, our economics, our sociology, our theology, essentially every aspect of our life. Where repentance is, we will find our lives nearer and more awake to God and others.

To LIVETHEFORTY is to repent as a community. 
To repent as a community is to see God bringing us to our “ends”. 
To come to our “ends”, leaves us to the work of smashing our current conceptions . . .
which leads to a whole new way of being.