This Ash Wednesday, as we begin 40 days of Lent our readings point us to prayer and a consideration of our mortality. Memento!

In Psalm 56, spoke of God holding our tears which gives us our theme for this weekend, ‘Lake of Tears.’

Psalms have been the songbook for the Hebrew people for several millennia . Psalms is not meant to be autobiographical but written for other worshippers pray and praise. Imagine writing your own Psalm!

Psalm 13 gives the believer the vocabulary to lament and wait on God for answers to prayer

Psalm 126 is one of the Songs of Ascent, used by pilgrims as they journeyed to a festival. It depicts their highs and lows, but it was the ‘lows’ that reaped a harvest.

In Psalm 56, David was fleeing for his life from King Saul but in a fear led panic he ended up in Gad. It was there he received a revelation which gives us our theme for this weekend, ‘Lake of Tears.’

to wonder is to be filled with amazement or awe. How can we be wonder-ful people? Psalm 8 is an outburst of praise that we can learn from, let us enter in.

Using our imagining let us enter the narrative of the disciples in the Galilean squall and with them encounter the Lord who says, ‘Be Calm.’