Leaning into Lent | CT Women

Leaning into Lent

Depending upon where you live, last week may have brought some of the darkest and hardest days you’d seen in a while. Millions of people lost power and water as a deadly winter storm wreaked havoc across the United States. Communities already afflicted by harrowing COVID-19 numbers faced compounded suffering as ice and snow damaged homes and buildings and caused food shortages.
Times like these leave us wondering much exhaustion and difficulty a person or a community can take. The season of Lent gives us space to lament the fact that we have to wonder about such things in this broken world.
In Lent, we find that God gives us permission to ask why life can be so hard. He empowers his church to care for one another as he cares for us. And he comforts us all the while—not rushing us toward our Resurrection, but tending to our grief as we await it.