Lent Begins with Confession

(Update: Discussion Guide available) — If you’d like to go deeper in your reflection on these songs and poems, the guide can be used by yourself or with others - we apologize that the link to the guide is a week late.)

As the season of Lent begins, we offer this visual liturgy resource for your personal reflection and preparation for the spiritual journey ahead.

The Knowing presents a song of relational honesty and vulnerability by Shellee Layne Coley, which overlays a confessional poem/prayer by Kelly Ann Hall.

Confession is always a relevant part of our spiritual practices, but is a seasonal emphasis in Lent and will be a constant companion in the coming weeks. It is our making known to God those things about us we would rather hide, even from ourselves - though God already knows them - those things which we need to openly own, if we are to be delivered from them.

In the song, you’ll hear hallelujahs sung. Traditionally, we don’t sing or pray any form of that word of praise during Lent. We save them for Easter morning.

So, may these hallelujahs, with those of Easter morning to come, be like bold bookends for our spiritual practices in this Lent: literally, this time for letting go of certainty*; this season of shedding* of all that separates us from God and one another; these weeks with a willingness to get honest* with ourselves, with others, and with God.

May we bare our souls to be known*! Thanks be to God!

[ * These are themes from The Knowing ]

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