Now Into our third week of Lent and continuing ICE raids, grabbing people who have no criminal records, many of whom even have applications either in immigration court or with USCIS, we hear of measles outbreaks and deaths by physical abuse from guards or suicides, not to mention the lack of medical care. Is this America or ancient Rome?
We want to shut the world out but like the rain, these stories keep coming. We ask, when will this stop? And there’s the war in the Middle East, the Senate voting down limits on a President’s power to do what he wants. What happened to the Constitution?
We get bombastic comments from Hegseth about raining death and destruction from the skies without words of condolence for the families of the servicemen who died in Kuwait. “Tragic things happen.” It’s still raining, and we wait for the sun. It seems that our only consolation is that at least it’s not snow.
Prayer for the Day
Holy Creator whose Spirit stirred over the waters of chaos,
Calm the turbulent waters of our souls,
And open us to the light of your love,
Bathing us with your Spirit so we have trust in you.
Reveal to us in this Lenten Season the power of simple things
And the power of love and care above all
In the name of the One who reveals to us that power,
Even Christ Jesus our Lord, Amen.
Thoughts for the Day
Sometimes you say to yourself: the fire in me is going out. But you were not the one who lit that fire. Your faith does not create God, and your doubts cannot banish Him to nothingness.
Brother Roger of Taizé (1915-2005)
When one is in despair it means that one still believes in something.
Dmitri Shostakovich, Russian composer (1906-1975)
Out of the depths I cry to you, O Lord. Lord, hear my voice!
Let your ears be attentive to the voice of my supplications!
If you, O Lord, should mark iniquities, Lord, who could stand?
But there is forgiveness with you, so that you may be reversed.
I wait for the Lord, my soul waits, and in God’s word I hope;
My soul waits for the Lord, more than those who watch for the morning.
More than those who watch for the morning.
Psalm 130: 1-6