Lent is the time for letting go of the heavy burdens we carry

through the looking glass

Lent is the time for letting go of the heavy burdens we carry –

all the things we don’t need, the broken wings we drag around unused

on our backs as if the disappointments 
and sorrows of the world left us hopeless,

letting go and making room for the light 
and becoming lighter on the earth

just barely touching the ground.

Lent is a journey of the heart through the desert

where there is hidden a well, the well itself,

that treasure in the field of which Jesus spoke,

the light in the darkness of the poet/prophets,

once discovered that it’s there somewhere,

once known but unseen, awakens the thirst

in the soul, a thirst that may have been forgotten

or is yet altogether unknown to us

is found in the words, and story,

the company of friends on the way,

the creating of our hands and heart,

the light for which the soul thirsts

without even knowing, the water of life,

the well in the desert that we know is there before we find it

as we learn how to make room in us for the light

letting go of what we hold that holds us down

and opening to the light to be lifted up,

to use our broken wings to fly.

So is the journey of lent.

Larry