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A Letter from Betty

February 14, 2018 By Betty Skinner

A Letter from Betty


Dear Ones,

Here in the solitude and silence, I sense a longing to give some of what I am receiving back to you, that together we might gratefully return a love gift to the Holy One during this Lenten season. I am reminded of three truths:

In Christ, the struggle transforms us.

In Christ, the fire purifies us.

In Christ, the pain teaches us compassion.

Lent is a time when we as believers enter into an extended retreat with Jesus.  It is an invitation to participate with Jesus in His time of prayer, solitude, silence, and privation in the wilderness. It is a call to an ever deepening conversion experience, a call to repentance, and a call to choose change.

May we come in humility and gratitude to accept His invitation and offer not a candy bar or a glass of wine, but our hearts, ourselves.  Such a sacrificial offering creates an openness and emptiness within our hearts where God can give Himself, through Christ, back to us.  It is in this giving and receiving of Love that we are immersed in the flow of divine relationship and begin to experience the freedom to live our lives in the Spirit of Love. So to live in the Spirit, in Holy Communion, is to live in the flow of divine relationship with all that it has to offer us.  And what it offers is the Paschal mystery of Life out of death, Love out of pain, ecstasy out of agony, the Word out of silence, Light out of darkness and power out of poverty.

What a supremely precious gift this Love is.  It is a gift that continues to transcend—spirit touching spirit.  We are all held unconditionally in it and experience, moment by moment, that such a Love cannot be said; it can only be felt with the heart.

Beholding the Beloved, Trusting in His mercy,

~Betty


With gratitude to Sally Chester for the beautiful photo

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