THE WAY of LENT By Rev. Jennifer Pick "Life is a pilgrimage. But sometimes is takes a pilgrimage to discover life." —Matthew Kelly" "Yet even now, says the Lord, return to me with all your hearts, with fasting, with weeping, and with sorrow." —Joel 2:12 Image: "The Way Back" for Ash Wednesday. ©Todd Pick, 2017. THE SHAPE OF THE SEASON Lent begins in ashes and ends in the silence of the tomb before Easter morning. The 40 days from Ash Wednesday through Holy Saturday are a seas

​"A beginning is already a project under way… A beginning gives us the chance to do work that compensates us for the tumbling disorder of brute reality that will not settle down." —Edward W. Said "In the beginning when God created the heavens and the earth, the earth was a formless void and darkness covered the face of the deep" —Genesis 1:1 My two-year-old son opens every book he owns and animatedly says, “Nunna-ponna-time!” He cannot even fully enunciate the words, “Once u