Holy Fragments: A Lenten Season of Recovery

Each of us is created as a holy vessel of embodied love. However, we have been through a harrowing time since last Lent that has shattered our sense of wholeness–body, mind, and spirit–like a glass vessel fractured into pieces. In this Lenten “season of recovery” for our physical, communal, mental, intellectual, and environmental health, we will explore the healing narratives of Jesus that tell of divine solidarity with human suffering and remind us that we can begin a journey toward making something beautiful from that which is seemingly broken. We are not who we used to be, but we are being tumbled and transformed into something new--a holy fragment that shows the world what it looks like to be weathered but not destroyed. Beach glass offers us a multifaceted symbol of this transformative process.