Let us begin our Lenten journey, earnest in our desire to\u00a0be<\/u><\/em>\u00a0God\u2019s prayer, to gather\u00a0all<\/u>\u00a0<\/em>the children of God, and to surrender ourselves to be transformed through love.<\/p>\n Let us take time to write in our Lenten journals each day, to compose our own prayers for justice, and to examine how our\u00a0actions\u00a0<\/em>give witness to God\u2019s justice.<\/p>\n Let us pray that we will become what the prophet Joel calls, an “assembly of God,” and a community that\u00a0is\u00a0<\/em>the Sermon on the Mount.<\/p>\n As a conference may we pray this prayer together every\u00a0day during Lent:<\/p>\n God, Remind me again today Remind me again today Remind me again today that you Prema and I wish you and your loved ones a blessed Lenten season.<\/p>\n in Christ\u2019s love,<\/p>\n Bishop Sudarshana Devadhar<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" March 1, 2019 Beloved in Christ: Greetings in the precious name of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. On Ash Wednesday, we are reminded of God’s call: \u201cGather the people, consecrate\u00a0the assembly; bring together the elders, gather the children, those nursing at the breast \u2026” \u2014 \u00a0Joel 2:16 In other words, gather everyone. “A 2016 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-worship-and-teaching"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chilmarkchurch.org\/service\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chilmarkchurch.org\/service\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chilmarkchurch.org\/service\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chilmarkchurch.org\/service\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chilmarkchurch.org\/service\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5736"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/chilmarkchurch.org\/service\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5736\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5737,"href":"https:\/\/chilmarkchurch.org\/service\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5736\/revisions\/5737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chilmarkchurch.org\/service\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chilmarkchurch.org\/service\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chilmarkchurch.org\/service\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nremind me again today that
\nyou\u00a0are<\/em>\u00a0Love;
\nthat Loving is always expressed in action
\nnot beliefs.<\/p>\n
\nthat your love was made visible
\nin creation,
\nin Jesus,
\nin the Church, the\u00a0body<\/em>\u00a0of Christ.<\/p>\n
\nthat it is through love, not
\nright vs wrong,
\ngood vs evil, that
\nwe are saved.<\/p>\n
\ngather us\u00a0all<\/em>,
\nlove us\u00a0all<\/em>,
\nsanctify us\u00a0all,<\/em>
\ncall us\u00a0all,\u00a0<\/em>
\nto be one \u2014
\nin Christ,
\nwith each other,
\nin ministry to
\nall the world.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/neumc-email.brtapp.com\/files\/tables\/emails\/2221778\/files\/Devadhar%20Signature%208-2017.png?width=200\")
<\/p>\n