Befriending the Cross

Unscripted reflections on the texts for Sunday.

Lent gracefully affords us time to deny ourselves through fasting and resisting evil thoughts, but it also teaches us to befriend the cross, urging us gently (or not-so-gently) to die into Jesus’ death. We need to die into Jesus’ death because it is only by sharing in his cross that we are saved from sharing the fate of the powerful. We all exist either in the belly of the fox or under the wings of the hen. We live according to the mind of Herod or according to the mind of Jesus. And the bottom line is this: the only way to avoid being devoured by the fox is to be brooded by the hen.

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