Meal From Below: A Lenten DevotionalSample

Life Breaks Forth

Christ is risen!

Many things might be said in response: Impossible! Crazy. Merely a religious fantasy, a projection of our infantile desires, a myth, a hoax, wishful thinking, a tool of social control, an opiate for the masses.

Or is this the ground of all that is, the first fruits of Reality itself?

May life break forth and pierce our illusions with love today.

RESPONSE

1. Consider how you have been taken into God’s love, blessed, and broken in that love, and now are given to the world. The Resurrection is the ground of all givenness because it marks the emergence of life from the dark passage of death. How are you seeing this emergence in your life? In your world?

2. Give yourself as a gift this week. It might be a note, a phone call, a helping hand, a thoughtfully prepared meal, or a simple work of art or craftsmanship. As you consider what and how to give, take care that it reflects what is breaking forth as new life in you. It’s all the better if it connects deeply with new life you perceive in the recipient.

 This plan was adapted from Meal From Below, a publication of Street Psalms. For more devotionals like this, including our weekly Word from Below reflection, visit www.streetpsalms.org/you-version.