• image of the week (4)

    March 22, 2009

    Posted in: livetheforty

    We began LENT “The Forty” pursuing the idea that the process of repentance (metanoia) is SMASHING OUR CURRENT CONCEPTIONS.  For me, this image, speaks to the process of God chunking bricks into the conceptions i live with—revealing their delusions.

    So, how has the Lenten process been for you so far?

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    • JeffPlunkett said...

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      There is so much that this first experience in Lent has impacted . . . but one thing that I am especially excited about is the connection I feel with Christ related to the cross and the resurrection. Having never participated in Lent, Easter was always this event of memory. I would remember, at least from stories, what Christ had done but my participation was with bunnies and over worked chickens (both real and plastic - I guess that is where plastic eggs come from).

      Although my participation is minor compared to Jesus, for the first time, I am participating WITH Him in the season. I am not just an observer from a safe, comfortable perspective of His suffering but, in my own way, I am in relationship with Him as we struggle step-by-step toward the sacrifice to death in order to bring real life.

      The window God has thrown His brick through was my third story hotel room safely situated above the street that Jesus dragged the weight of the cross. Now that the window is broken, I am forced to decide if I am going to go down to be apart or just huddle up in the corner and hope it all goes away. Either way, the sounds of screaming, the stench of blood and sweat, and the heat of the heavy air beckon me toward a decision as to just how I will participate.

      03/22/09 11:30 PM | Comment Link

    • admin said...

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      jeff,
      man - i know this is a week old - but wow. I appreciate your honesty! There is everything right about Lent making us aware of Easter—the sacrifice and the Hope of the Resurrection. Sounds like your Lent is doing just that.

      Are you moving down the stairwell? Or remaining in the third floor hotel room—being an observer? How is that going?

      Lent moves us out of observation–to participation, haven’t you found? I’ve found so many roughed out aspects of my life surfacing during these forty days. It’s exposing.

      This sunday - i think we’ll be asking as a community - are we willing to identify with the Lowly Christ. I’m struggling to see myself in the street with him rather than observing from “the third floor”.

      again–thanks for working this out on the blog.

      Anyone else out there?

      sscriv

      04/2/09 8:53 PM | Comment Link

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