Lent’s Lost and Found: Revisiting Hope and The Prophesy of Simeon

The photo above is of some wheat I picked years ago from my ancestral farm in North Dakota.  I was in a vase for many years until I decided it was too dusty and just needed to be thrown.  In fact, I thought it had gone in the garbage.

We are planning a trip to Ireland this summer, I have been reading and researching about Ireland including St. Brigid.  A few weeks ago the idea popped into my head of making a St. Brigid’s cross to hang above our front door.  Then, my mind went to this wheat and I thought, “why didn’t I save that?”

Well guess what?  I did not put it in the garbage but dumped it with a pile of stuff in our family room I need to go through.

When I read from my book Your Sorrow Is My Sorrow this morning, the author, Joyce Rupp tells the story of the Prophesy of Simeon and how it might have been received from Mary’s perspective.  It talks about how Mary might have felt she needed to find that same trust in God that she accepted when the angel announced to her that she would be the mother of God.

Rupp writes Mary’s possible thought, “…I had to find that hope again as I faced Simeon’s prophesy.”

As I began digging through the pile in our family room and came upon the wheat, I could not help ponder the thought of how my faith and hope are like a lost and found.  Maybe Lent is a time to dig through that lost and found to find our hope again.

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