Dear All of Us,
Take a wrong turn and we're lost,
delayed, damaged or dead.
Take a right turn and
we get on with things,
we're on our way.
That's how it is.
That's life.
That's also Lent.
Lent is about
right and wrong turns,
and happily about
WRONG RIGHTED
There's a ton of wrongs
and we suffer for that.
There are countless rights
that delight and expand us.
Both are symbolized
at the bookends of Lent.
Lent starts with ashes.
"Ashes, ashes, we all fall down"
and we sure have -
greedy self-centeredness
all the way to Putin's
horrendous, Satanic genocide.
Lent leads up - and up it is -
to banks of Easter lilies
that defied the dark and dread
of their winter graves,
pushed up bright and beautiful
as will we, righted for
the marvels of existence.
The Righting of Wrong is
Jesus
He is God Love Incarnate,
personal and present,
mixing in our
mess and marvel.
He gets into trouble,
our troubles,
our wrong turns,
our dead and
deadening ends,
and turns them right.
He gets right into
the manifold graves
our wrong turns
have opened.
In his realness,
his aliveness,
he pushes up
bright and beautiful,
freeing us,
turning us right,
for the marvels of
Creation Refreshed
and
God Life
in the Kingdom.
Because of our wrong turns
hurt and troubles there are.
But because we belong to Jesus
we too will Spring free,
come up from our downs,
righted from our wrongs,
bright and beautiful -
we and all creation.
There's "Hope for the Flowers"
and all the rest of us.
In God's Uplift,
John Frank
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PONDER PRAYER
A variety of
Prayer Prompts
follow that could be employed
over a period of time for
Lenten reflection and prayer.
Being as honest and specific
as I possibly can:
What are the five
most distressing,
most dangerous,
Wrong Turns
that are causing me
to be
- lost
- delayed
- damaged
- deadened
What are the five
most distressing,
most dangerous
Wrong Turns
by which I am causing
others to be
- lost
- delayed
- damaged
- deadened
What are the five
most distressing,
most dangerous,
Wrong Turns
by which our
country, culture, church
are causing society to be
- lost
- delayed
- damaged
- deadened
How do I have to be and
what do I need to do
to let Jesus have me,
mess and all,
so he can
right me?
What would it be like
to be Righted for
Creation Refreshed
and
God Life
in the Kingdom
for
me
others
country
culture
church
How can I open up,
how can I help others,
for these wonderful
RIGHTINGS
to be possible?
"Or do you not know that
all of us who have been
baptized into Christ Jesus
have been baptized
into his death?
Therefore we have been
buried with Him through
baptism into death,
so that as Christ
was raised from the dead
through the glory
of the Father,
so we too might walk in
newness of life."
Romans 6:3-4
How do I hope that
I and all of us can
"walk in newness of life?
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Let's be sure to hold
in heart and prayer
those wronged in our world
and those who wrong them.
One day may we be
ALL RIGHT
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