Our Savior walked a 40 day journey from the Last Supper to his crucifixion.   The walk was full of stress and pain.  Yet, always we heard his words to his father, “Not my will but yours.”

We have a 40 day journey through Lent.  It can be a beautiful experience of repentance.  It can be a difficult experience of keeping our fast.  But we can turn each day to our heavenly father with the words, “not my will but yours.”

I’d like to share with you a lovely hymn entitled, “Bless Now, O God, the Journey,” recorded by a member of the Good Shepherd Lutheran Church in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. The hymn begins with the stanza:

Bless now oh God the journey
that all your people make
the path through noise and silence
the way of give and take.

Our God walks with us through every journey, and surely through this 40-day journey of Lent. We know this, yet so often we turn to our own means. Remind us O Lord that you are here with us every step of the way.

Judy