Life is this strange, tender mix of joy and sorrow, love and loss, big wins and even bigger failures. We cling tightly to the beautiful moments, but then something happens that reminds us that everything is so much more fragile than we’d like to admit. Life can be too much. And Lent is the season where we sit in that heaviness. For 40 days, we stop pretending things will suddenly get better and face the truth: life is fragile, and so are we.  Lent invites us to stop pretending we can hold it all together and instead sit with the weight of what we carry—the grief, the regrets, the messes we can’t untangle, no matter how much we try. It is when we acknowledge how heavy the world can feel, where, bit by bit, we might also hold out hope for what might still be possible.   
-from 'The Hardest Part' by Kate Bowler

Join us as we enter this sacred season together. Come as you are—bring your burdens, your doubts, your hopes. Let us prepare our hearts, knowing that the darkness of Good Friday is not the end of the story.