Wednesday, March 2, 2016

There is Life in the Desert

Lent is a time of a change of heart. It is a time of turning our hearts toward  God in a more intense way.

The image of the desert goes back to early Christianity and to the desert fathers and mothers. It goes back even before this to Moses and the Hebrew People and the Exodus.The desert is not as barren as we would imagine.  It supports all kinds of life.  However, in the desert, we come face to face with our own life and try to see life as it really is and how we are called to live because in the desert there are no distractions.
 
Being in a desert with a group of people, would call all of us to work together and thus forget our own agenda. In the desert, we come face to face with God and ask ourselves how we live by God’s law, the commandments, and by Christian values. In the desert
we turn to prayer because we know we cannot live our lives alone but must rely on God. In the desert we acknowledge our limitations and our need for others.

As we continue our Lenten experience to Easter, let us go into the desert to seek God and to be filled with God that we can truly pray and live the life of the Spirit and
truly rise to new life with Jesus at Easter!
                                               Sr. Barbara Woeste, OSB



1 comment:

  1. Dear Sister thank you for this post. to find the desert, where it is silent, where the water is more precious than gold, where the only things that happen are the sunrise, the wind's strength, the heat, the cold night. Our memories our company. Thank you God for giving us so much in our lives, amen God bless!

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