I tried titling this “ourself” – but the squiggly red underline told me that wasn’t a valid word. News flash to me: that word is meant to be plural, for we have many selves. It’s how I explain the Trinity – three persons of equal importance. I hope you have found the time and place every day to simply sit and take notice of yourself. The many selves that comprise your identity. I do not mean to suggest that you are schizophrenic. There are aspects of ourselves that we feel okay about, and others that we know need work. Aside from this forty day season known as Lent in which we give up something that is pleasurable, it is also the season that brings those less than desirable qualities to the forefront. We don’t know what to do about them. Pray them away? Do the hard work of change? Shrug our shoulders and say “that’s just me”?

We can seek, study, and listen to understand, to be enlightened. We can change our situation instead of complaining. We can permit our friends to challenge and question us. When we sit with ourselves we are never alone. Angels, Jesus, the Holy Spirit are ever present. Unconditional love recognizes the me, myself, and I. It also encourages we, ourselves and you to allow time and space to sit alone in prayer, devotion, adoration, and meditation.

So that you, me, and others yet to be met become one in Christ Jesus.

Pastor Art