A Lenten Morning Retreat: Refining to Shine

What can you let God refine so that you can shine?

Hosted by the Rev. Laura Di Panfilo and the Rev.Lizzie McManus-Dail

Lent is a season of penitence and reflecting on our mortality — but that doesn’t mean it is a time to think less of ourselves or beat ourselves up for falling short. Instead, it is an opportunity to deliberately invite God to transform our hearts, to embolden us to tell and be transformed by the truth, to ask God to help us in a new start, to ask God to give us courage to be loving, kind, justice-seeking, and bridge-building. As the great hymn “How Firm a Foundation” goes, it is a time for God to consume our dross (old-timey word for rubbish) and to refine our gold. Lent is a time we ask God to make us shine!

So in that spirit, come spend a morning reflecting on what you need to lay down so that God can polish you up and shine. We will sing some hymns, hear a short teaching from Rev. Lizzie expanding on themes of forgiveness, freedom, and mercy as found in her new book, God Didn’t Make Us to Hate Us, and spend the lion’s share of time in creative reflection, art-making prayer, and contemplation.

Questions? Contact the Rev. Laura Di Panfilo at [email protected]

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