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Daily Lenten Meditation Introduction
Lent, the liturgical season that proceeds Easter, is the forty days, excluding Sundays before Easter. It begins with Ash Wednesday on Wednesday, February 25. Jesus, at the start of his ministry, was in the wilderness for forty days. The Jews, upon their Exodus from Egypt, were in the wilderness for forty years. Ashes are used in the Bible as a sign of repentance for our sins. Ash Wednesday is an acknowledgement of our sin and a sign of Christ's intervention to save us from sin's penalty of death. Lent is a time to reflect on the final days of Jesus' life and ministry among us. It is a time to think about what might need to be put to death within us. We look forward to Easter, a time of new life and new beginnings, though a time of quiet reflection and self-examination. It is our deepest hope that you will find some guiding touchstones among the emails that you will be receiving during this year's Lenten season.
MCCGSL thanks the following writers for sharing their Lenten meditations in this devotional:
Michael Desmond (md)
Kelly Durbin (kdd)
Valerie Jackson (vj)
Gina McAllister (gmc)
Tom Robertsen (tr)
Christine White (cw)
Ron White (rw)
Rev Sue Yarber (rsy)
A special thanks to Rev Bev Stephenson and Rev Carol Trissell for editing the meditations, to Dan Dowd and Lena Petty for putting the printed version together and to Danny Gladden for overseeing the electronic versions (WEB and email).
This devotional would not have happened without your efforts!
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