Listen to the Daily Office for the 6th day of Lent here or read it here.

To reflect on the whole, one would conclude with tentative reluctance, that the real, raw truth is that we cannot count on anyone including ourselves.

We walk, we share, we talk, we stare and those around us are prone to a failure we interpret as rejection. Our hearts are betrayed in our own estimation.

We are a broken people who yet dream even though our dreams are ridiculed.

Yet, we dream.

But we bicker … and  bicker over that which is less than …

Less than value.

Then there is a cross. It makes no sense to the masses mulling over meaning and arguing about semantics. It is just a cross born by a Spirit Baptizer who somehow steps into our mess.

He steps in and stands by the dreamer as well as the downtrodden and betrayed.

If one is looking for a season with a reason … this is it.