In life, there are some questions we like, and some which are more difficult. We tend to like questions such as, “How do you manage to look younger?” or “How have you lost so much weight?” Other questions we are less comfortable with, such as “Aren’t you done with that yet?” or “What’s taking you so long?”
Young kids tend to ask uncomfortable questions such as “Why is your hair gray (or gone)?” or “Do you remember the dinosaurs?
In the bible, almost from the beginning there have been questions. In Genesis, the first book of the bible, after God makes the heavens and the earth, and creates man and woman, the first couple finds themselves in the garden of Eden having eaten of the fruit which God told them not to eat. God asks them, “Where are you?” and “Have you eaten from the tree of which I command you not to eat?” (Gen. 3). If you are alive, there are questions. Some of the questions are profound, and some of the questions are difficult.
Sometimes God seems distant or even absent from our lives. At one time or another, we have all asked the proverbial question, “Where In The World Is God?”
This year, February 17, 2010, is Ash Wednesday, and marks the beginning of the Lenten Season. Lent is time set aside in the church year to prepare for the celebration of Easter. Lent is designed to be approximately one tenth of the year long, a period which we are invited to rededicate ourselves back to God through prayer, meditation, and service.
During this Lenten season I am going to offer an evening study entitled “Where In The World Is God?” It will be held every Tuesday at 7:30 PM during the season of Lent (beginning on February 23, 2010). We offer this as a way to get closer to the questions which surround our understanding of God. It is my hope that this study will offer an opportunity for study and centering prayer.
The Lenten season is one where our faith is both challenged and strengthened. It is a season where we are invited to investigate our fears and turn them into strengths. Harry Emmerson Fosdick was a famous 20th Century theologian and preacher. He had this to say about the role of faith in our lives. He wrote, “Fear imprisons, faith liberates; fear paralyzes, faith empowers; fear disheartens, faith encourages; fear sickens, faith heals; fear makes useless, faith makes serviceable - and most of all, fear put hopelessness in the heart of life, while faith rejoices in its God.”

Faithfully,
Rev. Keith

LENTEN STUDY TUESDAY EVENINGS DURING LENT, 6:30 P.M.