As winter begins (slowly) to give way to Spring, Lent holds the promise of giving way to a new season. This Sunday, as we note the Lazarus story, here is a blessing that may assist you in transitions in your own life. From Jan Richardson,The Lazarus Blessing:
The secret of this blessing is that it is written on the back of what binds you.
To read this blessing, you must take hold of the end of what confines you,
Must begin to tug at the edge of what wraps around you.
It may take long yes long for its length to fall away,
For the words of the blessing to unwind in folds about your feet.
By then you will no longer need them.
By then this blessing will have pressed itself into your waking flesh,
Will have passed into your bones, will have traveled every vein
Until it come to rest inside the chamber of your heart
That beats to the rhythm of benediction
And the cadence of release.
— In the cadence of release, in Christ, may you find transition to healing, peace, and new life.
