Not exactly the conventional approach to Lent? That’s exactly the point.
One of this year’s intriguing Lenten spiritual practices is all about examining our ‘conventional’ ideas about God. Does the way we think about God help us have a closer relationship with God – or is it an obstacle? For many of us, how we think about God is based on long-held beliefs formed in childhood and never thoroughly reexamined.
“What better time than Lent to reflect on the divine in different ways?’ asks Rev. Barry Taylor, who leads 10:15, the alternative Sunday worship service at All Saints’. “For forty days it’s all about the many ways to give up the Big Guy - God rid me of God as the Meister Eckhart would say.”
If Lent is meant to be a time of repentance – or more accurately, rethinking – then something as foundational as how we think of God seems like a prime candidate.