Finding Your Play this Lent

 

Yesterday, we checked in with ourselves.  How did that go?  Did you discover something hidden just beneath the surface that has been simmering there for a while?  Checking in with yourself is a profoundly beautiful way to begin any day.  Today, I invite you to get out the photo album of your life or the projector and slides of scenes from your childhood.  I wonder, what did you do for fun when you were ten years old? 

 

For me, I loved playing kickball as a lot.  I loved coloring with all the crayons in the box.  I loved listening to music ~ which was 80s rock!  I loved talking to friends.  I loved laughing.  I loved pizza and ice cream.

 

Today, as you remind yourself what caused your soul delight decades ago, I encourage you with as much pastoral love as I can, to go do that!  Get out the colors, blast the music of your youth, call a friend.  This is a holy, healing practice in Lent.  This might fill your soul with God’s love in a real, tactile and tangible way.  You have my permission, even in the season of Lent, to go have fun!  And even better, invite some others to join you.

 

May today your soul cry out with a joyful shout that God’s love is not some prize at the end of life, but a holy encounter in this life when we open ourselves to the creativity and care of our Creator.  Amen.