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Last week on Ash Wednesday, we began Lent together with the invitation from The Prophet Joel: “Return to me.” Not with performance or religious intensity, just return. THis year we are calling our Lent time together  Holy Disruption  and marking it by slowing down, making space, and reordering our time. 

As we move into week two of Lent, the invitation deepens. Psalm 51 gives us language for repentance, not as shame, but as honesty in the presence of grace. Repentance is not beating ourselves up, it is letting God search us, cleanse us, and realign our hearts. “Create in me a clean heart, O God” is not a cry of despair. It is a prayer of trust.

Our first week was about turning toward God, next, we let Him gently turn over what is inside us. Keep using your Lent guide, stay with your daily rhythm, and journal through the reflection questions. Ask the Spirit to show you where patterns need naming and where grace is already at work.

This is not about becoming impressive, it is about becoming honest. And honesty, in the hands of a loving God, always leads to freedom! 

Stay close. Stay rooted. Stay churchy.

Grace and peace,
Adam Greenwell