Lent 1, Year A

The Lord God took [the humans] and put [them] in the garden of Eden to till it and keep it. 16 And the Lord God commanded [them], “You may freely eat of every tree of the garden; 17 but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall die.”
~Genesis 2:15-17

[Jesus] answered, “It is written,
‘One does not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.’”
~Matthew 4:4

Labyrinth indeed! To eat or not to eat… And why? Perhaps we associate Lent with wilderness because, in the invitation to shed what we do not need for survival, what we do not need for the journey, we begin to realize that much of what we thought was essential is, in truth, burden. The wisdom of wildnerness is that we may already have what we need. The wisdom of Lent is to open ourselves to the discovery of what truly makes for life amidst all that doesn’t, and may, indeed, take it away.

What are you hungering for these days?
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Enter into worship.
 
Readings: Genesis 2:15-17; 3:1-7 † Psalm 32 † Romans 5:12-19 † Matthew 4:1-11
 
About the Art: Moyers, Mike. Lenten Labyrinth, from Art in the Christian Tradition, a project of the Vanderbilt Divinity Library, Nashville, TN. https://diglib.library.vanderbilt.edu/act-imagelink.pl?RC=57142 [retrieved February 12, 2026]. Original source: Mike Moyers, https://www.mikemoyersfineart.com/.

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