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Becoming Real

THURSDAY, MARCH 24

Good Enough, 117-121       Isaiah 53:1-5
Did you have a comfort item as a child? What do you turn toward for comfort now?

Some may actually, physically turn away from the sight of suffering. But there is One who never does, our God. Can you recall a time in your life when God felt especially close?

The Isaiah reading for today is about Jesus, who “had nothing in His appearance to attract us... a man of suffering and familiar with pain.” Lent is when we walk with Jesus toward the mysteries of His death and resurrection when He appeared more alive, more real than ever before. God knows human suffering from the inside out, and whatever you bring, God can hear it. You are never too much. Bring God all the reality you know too well—all the hurt and confusion and even the stuff that looks the shabbiest. Talk it out. Honest prayer is where reality grows and comfort begins.

God, I need you to show up in the midst of my most fragile humanity. Make yourself present to me in my pain and loss and fear. Remind me I never walk alone.

Amen.

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