The event will kick-off with our regular Wednesday Noon Prayers and then will continue each day in the Alpha and Omega Rooms until Palm Sunday.
If you haven’t signed up yet (and most folks haven’t!) then please find the sign-up sheets this coming Sunday and pencil your name in on a day and time (or multiple days and times) that work for your schedule.
In thinking about prayer, I always come back to Frederick Buechner’s excellent book Wishful Thinking: A Seeker’s ABC. In it he begins his definition of prayer like this:
We all pray whether we think of it as praying or not. The odd silence we fall into when something very beautiful is happening, or something very good or very bad. The ah-h-h-h! that sometimes floats up out of us as out of a Fourth of July crowd when the skyrocket bursts over the water. The stammer of pain at somebody else’s pain. The stammer of joy at somebody else’s joy. Whatever words or sounds we use for sighing with over our own lives. These are all prayers in their way. These are all spoken not just to ourselves but to something even more familiar than ourselves and even more strange than the world. According to Jesus, by far the most important thing about praying is to keep at it.
As the Season of Lent rapidly comes to a close, I we will try to “keep at it” through the Prayer Vigil. We will have supplies and resources ready for you, the room all set to go. All we need is your presence and your prayers to help make it happen.
Yours in the journey, Rev. Brian
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