by Michèle Sinnott                Ireland            06.04.2023

My thanks for your company again across the miles, as we move onto The Seventh and Final Stepping Stone for this Lenten Journey…

We’ve reached the point of our 7th Wednesday together…

Whether you’ve been dipping in and out occasionally or have made it part of your

Weekly Journey to engage in the Reflections as they arrived into your Inbox, I am truly grateful for your commitment to this Shared Journey…

For still being here…

I think of My Own Lenten Journey…

And Yours…

· I’m wondering how this Time of Reflective Journeying has been for you?

· Where have these past 6 Weeks of Lent taken you?

· Pausing to Notice the various Stepping Stones where you have slowed during these weeks… 👣

· Those you experienced as most meaningful for you…

· The ones that may have challenged you…

· How are you Within as we arrive where we are today?

As we step onto this Stepping Stone, Darkness Unto Light, we Pause…

We are in a Special Week, Holy Week…

A suitable time to do so maybe, on yet another Threshold – that of The Easter Triduum…

The three days, from dusk on Holy Thursday to dusk on Good Friday (Day 1)

Dusk on Good Friday to dusk on Holy Saturday (Day 2)

And dusk on Holy Saturday to dusk on Easter Sunday (Day 3)

The recounting of the different parts of the story of Jesus’ Final Days on Earth…

His Journey along the way…

His Death…

and His Resurrection…

I’m drawn to reflect, momentarily, on the many little deaths I seem to sometimes experience within myself and the re-emergence from them time and time again…

In their simplicity and in their complexity, lived experiences of Darkness Unto Light…

Holy Week… 🙏
Something emerges about what I might Encounter within Myself over this week as I Embrace the Journey with Jesus…
Each Step of the Way…
Humbling Walking…
In My Own Frayed Shoes…

My Own Darkness…
My Own Hurts…
My Own Fears…
My Own Doubts…
My Own Thorns…

My Own Crosses…
Past or Present…

Always more bearable, isn’t it, if we focus on The Light?

You…Me…walking through this week, each with

Our Own Trusting…
Our Own Accepting…
Our Own Surrendering…
Our Own Hoping…
Our Own Healing…
Our Own Re-Emergence…
Our Own Faith Renewed…
Again…

My Light…and Yours,
With God’s Light About Us…

Does any of this speak to you?

What might it awaken in you?

Can you gently hold your Inner Responses in The Light?

After the darkness, there is always Light…

Isn’t it that, which in some way, gives Light its brightness?

Can you carry that Light forward today? This week?
And maybe offer it to Someone Else who needs it?

Editor’s Note:  Michèle Sinnott works as a Spiritual Director/Companion, in Bereavement Support, Meditation and Retreat Facilitation. She writes Reflective pieces and has a Contemplative, Earth-based Spirituality.