Brothers and Sisters - Here we are again.
As we enter the Holy Season of Lent together starting on Ash Wednesday tomorrow, I welcome you to join me on another journey through the Word. Many of you have traveled along with me the past three years as I shared thoughts each day, “giving something out” instead of “giving something up”, as is oft the Lenten tradition.
During Lent, I start each day with Morning Prayer, from the Book of Common Prayer, a part of which is a set of Bible verses. As I read the Word and meditate/pray on it, my mind starts to wander. Wispy tendrils of thought begin to coalesce into ideas, concepts and beliefs . When I step aside and allow the Holy Spirit to do its work, inspiration arrives.
I do not believe this ability to receive inspiration is unique to me in any way, but a gift offered and available to all who spend time in God’s Word and in communion with the Holy Spirit. I have merely been blessed with the realization that this gift is out there for all of us who chose to partake and drink deeply.
Some days, the particular bit of scripture for Morning Prayer does not move me, for whatever reason. Maybe its wisdom is beyond me; maybe it will mean something to me when my life has further seasoned 10, 30 or 50 years from now, being not yet ready for its message today. On those, days, I’ll pick a favorite. I have been on a One Year Bible reading plan for the past 270+ days (currently up to Isaiah and Philippians...plus halfway through round 2 of the Psalms and Proverbs) and have had LOTS of verses become my new favorites. I’ll identify those as such on the days when I write about them.
These meditations will be on my blog (http://scottdwilsonstuff.blogspot.com) which you can link to and sign up to follow, getting alerts when I post. I’ll also post a link to it on my Facebook page each day. Lastly, if you would like me to send the link via email daily, please let me know and I am happy to do it. I will do my best to have the postings on my blog early morning. For those days they come late, please bear with me.
So, dear friends and loved ones -- as well as those whom I have yet to meet and count as friends or come to love -- thank you for being a part of this walk. Knowing that you are out there reading, thinking praying and walking beside me each of the next 47 days, keeps me joyfully moving forward. I welcome your own thoughts, prayers and inspiration as we journey together.
Always with Christ and in Christ,
Scott
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