Picking up our crosses and joining Jesus this Lenten Season
has been so incredibly wonderful so far. Each Friday during Lent Gabriel and I
make a very new and different commitment, as we felt Jesus asking us to walk to
our nearby mountain Pueblos while mediating and praying the Stations of the
Cross. And of course, it has been a true opportunity to exercise our faith and confidence
in the Lord.
Our prayer walks have been as long as 8 hours with steep inclines up mountains and as short as 6 hours crossing rivers and dodging snakes each Friday. It seems up front that it is a miraculous achievement that we even make it up the mountain and back again as we are walking half of the journey in the dark. But what is more miraculous is that our community has joined us each Friday. As a community we take turns carrying the heavy wooden cross, take turns reading and leading songs, and taking turns lighting the pathways in the darkness. Many of us have fallen more times than we can count, we have been rained on, and we each carry our own personal crosses, health issues, worldly problems, receiving strange looks from those we pass by, but somehow the burdens of all that we suffer feel lighter as we journey together.
Please pray for us and be confident that we as a community
are praying for you! May Jesus gently and merciful call you to something
radically new during this Lenten Season and may your encounter with Him radically
transform your heart!
1st Friday of lent
Second Friday of Lent
