Mid-Lent Check In
God says to Moses, “This is what you shall tell the
Israelites: I AM sent me to you… The Lord, the God of
your [ancestors], the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac,
the God of Jacob” (Exodus 3:14, 15).
As Jesus would later
say, God is not a God of the dead, but of the living, and so
we believe that the dead will one day rise. At this midpoint
of Lent, we pause to consider how our repentance is leading us to the Resurrection, to our reunion with the great “I
AM.”
Part of our repentance involves working to secure
justice for all and helping our neighbor to live in God’s
ways. We encourage each other and nurture each other,
like the compassionate gardener of today’s Gospel, who
tells the owner of the orchard that he will nurture the tree,
fertilize it, and perhaps it will bear fruit.
