Signposts On The Way

A Good Measure

Today’s Gospel reading (Luke 6:36-38) is so rich and beautiful.  I pray that we each can be blest through this passage during our prayer time today.

One phrase in particular points to profound experience: Forgive and be forgiven.  Reflecting on your relationships with God, with yourself, and with others: What are your most moving memories of being forgiven?  Of forgiving?  What have those experiences given to you?  What are aches you bear now, that point toward a need for forgiveness?  Will your Lent become more complete for you if you lean into the forgiveness and healing needed?

The Church supplies us with a full array of considerations for a meaningful Lent - Easter: the culmination of the Good News of Jesus that we delve into all year; prayer, fasting and almsgiving; metanoia / conversion into the path of crucifixion-resurrection; communal reconciliation; and more.  As a lifeblood pulse underlying all these: forgive and be forgiven.  Living that pulse profoundly, we become spiritual lifeblood for others.