Followers of the Pew know I write a great deal about love — love of God, love of family, love of our neighbors. Love is most powerful when we act on it. Like the good Samaritan who crawled down into the ditch and helped his “neighbor.”
During Lent we practice shifting the inward process of love and compassion into action. Theologian Johann Metz talks about how we might live out an “empathetic mysticism of open eyes.” In other words, our faith is most true when we open our eyes to the world, see the needs and suffering, and act on those needs and suffering.
Lent becomes our spring practice for the game of life that follows.
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