To-morrow is Ash Wednesday and so continues a mindful forty days until we celebrate the Risen Christ.
On 4 March 2012, the Second Sunday in Lent, the Revd Katherine Hedderly preached at St Martin in the Fields on Sacred Space. Below is some of what she had to say and the whole may be found here.
But what does it mean to let Jesus live in us? Perhaps this journey of Lent is about allowing God to show us – show us where we need to de-clutter our lives, make space, enlarge our hearts and deepen our understanding – so that we can flourish in the bigger picture of his love – offered to us in the sacred space of Jesus’ life and death and resurrection.
Etty Hillesum, a young Jewish woman, whose inspiring and hope filled diary and letters, written during the holocaust years before her death in Auschwitz in 1943, that we are using as inspiration for our Lent Course this year, wrote of this sacred God-filled space within, at a time when she was surrounded by the worst human suffering and evil:
‘There is a deep well inside me. And in it dwells God. Sometimes I am there too. But more often stones and grit block the well and God is buried underneath. Then he must be dug out again.’
Picture at left from this site
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