Dear Friends:

LENT BEGINS:  It seems to have come more quickly this year.  However, we are already half way through February. There are a few white poinsettia plants still decorating the altar. The red ones are mostly gone. Lent and purple are coming fast - a serious time in the church. We’ll mark our foreheads with ashes this Wednesday as a sign that we realize we are dust and will return to dust. There’s so much more to our lives than physical flesh and blood. We enter into the Heart of Christ with great love and determination to be better. Remembering we are dust, we also recall that we will live for all eternity in God’s presence. We rest in Jesus in prayer as we recall what our lives are about - Him. This is a beautiful time to surround ourselves with His peace and love and to just be with Him in love and prayer.