Introduction to the Lenten Devotional: The Rev. Karen Haig

For Christians, Lent is a time set apart. Forty full, rich and long days to reflect and to pray, to look within, to seek out and explore the things in our lives that create distance between God and ourselves. Lent is a time to listen carefully and to discern what it is that God is calling us into. What might we take on, or let go of, in order to more freely love God, our neighbors and ourselves?

We offer you the St. Thomas Lenten Devotional and invite you to spend some time each day reflecting on Holy Scripture with our St. Thomas community. These reflections have been written with great care and attention by the people of our community, and they offer us an opportunity to move more deeply into our relationships with God, with one another and with ourselves.  My heartfelt thanks to all who prayed and pondered and wrote so beautifully from the riches of their own lives, to make this booklet happen. This little devotional is a great gift to us all, and it has been my privilege to have had a hand in bringing it to you. I invite you to use it to pray with, and to come closer into community by coming to know a bit more of the people who have written these reflections. May this Lent be an especially rich and holy season for us all.

- Faithfully, Karen†