Lent is a time to acknowledge on our dependence on the grace of God. The Scottish writer J. Philip Newell writes about the wonderful wisdom we have from the Celtic tradition. In The Book of Creation he writes:
” The Celtic tradition often portrays grace as washing away the things that obscure the essential goodness of life. The light that was in the beginning still glows at the heart of life but we do not see its full brilliance. ‘It was to bring human nature back to this vision that the Incarnate Word of God descended,’ writes Eriugenia, ‘sweeping away the shadows of false fantasies, opening the eyes of the mind, showing Himself in all things.’ Grace is like a cleaning rain over the landscape of life, followed by a sunlight that restores our vision.”
May God’s cleansing rain help us to restore our own vision this Lenten season.
Submitted by Steve Cramer