During the Sunday morning sermon about two weeks before Lent was due to begin, I felt like the Holy Spirit was directing me to to do something different with our church’s Lenten decor this year. The last two years, our Liturgical Decorating Team had created a desert-scape using burlap, dried sticks, clay vessels, and rocks, with scraggly greenery sparsely tucked in. We created an image of the wilderness because Lent always takes us back to the wilderness.
Sensing that Holy Spirit was calling for something different, I focused in on what I was sensing. “Keep the burlap.” Lent is a season of repentance. The burlap is symbolic of sackcloth. Repentance is linked with mourning and often involved sitting in sackcloth and ashes. This made sense to me.
“Mirrors. Different ones. Lots of them. Fill the chancel.”
Um…what?
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