January 31, 2024
The young people of the Sunday School are already on board. Are you?
I’m talking about our planned 2024 Church of the Holy Cross Lenten devotional, “Fill the Heart.” Over the last couple Sundays, the students have prepared a set of comforting and inspiring Scripture verses on the theme. Just looking over their selections brought tears to my eyes.
What can you provide that will bring tears to my eyes?
I grant you that making me teary is not the most difficult thing in the world. There are movies I’ve seen countless times and the same scenes get me every time. There’s a song by Fred Small about the evacuation of Denmark’s Jews in 1942 that had me weeping the first time I heard it and every single time since. You’ve got every chance of bringing me to tears again.
What has filled your heart in your life? What experiences, sights, sounds, smells, tastes? Is there a photograph you’d like to share that makes your heart sing? Can you offer a memory of a sweet, powerful time of your life that might just fill someone else’s heart, too?
You’ve done it before, friends. I’m quite sure you can do it again.
As in the past, we’ll publish the devotional in three volumes. As noted on the front page of this Messenger, we’ll need items for the first volume by February 1st so that we can make the booklets available on Sunday, February 11th, before Lent begins on February 14th.
I’m looking forward to your contributions. And I’ll keep some tissues handy.
In peace,
Pastor Eric
Photo by Eric Anderson
