Today I am taking just a bit of a break from my usual blogging to tell my readers a little about what is coming up as we prepare for Lent, Holy Week and Easter 2010.
Lent is such a great time to prepare for the celebration of the events that our Lord Jesus Christ endured to bring about our salvation. It is a time to meditate on how we can deepen our relationship with God through prayer and sharing. It is a time to reset our Spiritual lives and focus on what the Cross means for Christians. It is also a time to wander with Jesus in the deserts of our own hearts and minds.
As we enter into Lent this coming Wednesday which is Ash Wednesday there will be blog on that day that will focus on beginning our Lenten journey to Easter. As with the meaning of this blog it will include how LGBT people can experience the work and fruit that Lent offers. I will continue to pull current events into the picture, but I will also challenge us to look at how we can unite our work for equality and justice with Christ and his Cross, and how that can be our greatest hope for victory.
On the Fridays of Lent, the blog entries for that day will focus particularly on the cross and it's meaning for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered people. Friday's blog will be more focused on the Cross than perhaps the rest of the week. The Cross is not only the means of how Christ saved us, but it is also the greatest place for prayer and meditation as to what we are called to as LGBT Christians. It is not really the place where our sexual orientations and/or gender identities/expressions are destroyed as the religious right would like us to believe. Actually the Cross is where we are accepted and loved, forgiven and commissioned to live our lives as LGBT Christians. So, Friday's blog will be about the Cross and it's relationship to LGBT people.
Holy Week and Easter will bring us right to remembering the Crucifixion, Death and Resurrection at which time we will celebrate Christ's unconditional and all inclusive love. The salvation of God for all people includes LGBT individuals. There are those who feel that there should be no place for LGBT people at the Altar, Cross or at the Empty Tomb. In the blogs I write around that time, I plan to offer some thoughts about why the Altar, the Cross and the Empty Tomb is exactly where LGBT people need to be.
I want to thank all of my blog readers up to this point and invite you to continue to read. I pray that we will all have a successful and meaningful Lent, Holy Week and Easter celebration. I pray that we will be renewed and healed as LGBT and other Christians as we celebrate the events through which God in Jesus Christ brought about our salvation. There will be no blog tomorrow, Tuesday, February 16th as we prepare for Ash Wednesday.
God bless.
Lent is such a great time to prepare for the celebration of the events that our Lord Jesus Christ endured to bring about our salvation. It is a time to meditate on how we can deepen our relationship with God through prayer and sharing. It is a time to reset our Spiritual lives and focus on what the Cross means for Christians. It is also a time to wander with Jesus in the deserts of our own hearts and minds.
As we enter into Lent this coming Wednesday which is Ash Wednesday there will be blog on that day that will focus on beginning our Lenten journey to Easter. As with the meaning of this blog it will include how LGBT people can experience the work and fruit that Lent offers. I will continue to pull current events into the picture, but I will also challenge us to look at how we can unite our work for equality and justice with Christ and his Cross, and how that can be our greatest hope for victory.
On the Fridays of Lent, the blog entries for that day will focus particularly on the cross and it's meaning for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered people. Friday's blog will be more focused on the Cross than perhaps the rest of the week. The Cross is not only the means of how Christ saved us, but it is also the greatest place for prayer and meditation as to what we are called to as LGBT Christians. It is not really the place where our sexual orientations and/or gender identities/expressions are destroyed as the religious right would like us to believe. Actually the Cross is where we are accepted and loved, forgiven and commissioned to live our lives as LGBT Christians. So, Friday's blog will be about the Cross and it's relationship to LGBT people.
Holy Week and Easter will bring us right to remembering the Crucifixion, Death and Resurrection at which time we will celebrate Christ's unconditional and all inclusive love. The salvation of God for all people includes LGBT individuals. There are those who feel that there should be no place for LGBT people at the Altar, Cross or at the Empty Tomb. In the blogs I write around that time, I plan to offer some thoughts about why the Altar, the Cross and the Empty Tomb is exactly where LGBT people need to be.
I want to thank all of my blog readers up to this point and invite you to continue to read. I pray that we will all have a successful and meaningful Lent, Holy Week and Easter celebration. I pray that we will be renewed and healed as LGBT and other Christians as we celebrate the events through which God in Jesus Christ brought about our salvation. There will be no blog tomorrow, Tuesday, February 16th as we prepare for Ash Wednesday.
God bless.
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