Our Worship Arts team is preparing a decoration to represent the spirit of the Lenten season. At the Ash Wednesday service 2/26 or the first Sunday of Lent 3/1, please bring a stick from your yard and place it in the basket by the cross in the foyer. Sticks are not easy to work with - they are brittle, dry, unyielding, stubborn, and rigid - prone to breaking under the slightest pressure. As we considered these sticks as a metaphor for our Lenten contemplation, the sticks become symbols for our struggles, our failures, our shortcomings, our pain. But when we bring them to the cross, Christ takes our sins, our burdens and our suffering; and that makes all the difference.
