Quick Summary:

At the start of our Lenten journey our readings bring us face to face with the most basic, thorny issues of human experience. Each reading lifts up a mirror to us. The Lenten season is an invitation for us to go on a 40-day sojourn with Christ:
? to enter wilderness space with him by our side;
? to practice saying YES to God and NO to Satan;
? to take a long look at ourselves in the mirror;
? to recommit ourselves to the identity that became ours in baptism: BELOVED DAUGHTER, BELOVED SON.

There was a time when the mirror we held up during Lent had us looking primarily at individual habits, vices, and sins. But by inviting me to focus my primary energy on getting my personal house in order, it allowed me to sidestep obligations to the larger, systemic challenges bedeviling the world. The world cannot abide, cannot afford that kind of compartmentalizing any more.

Our Creation Care Team is calling us into awareness of the ways plastic wraps itself around our everyday lives, and how plastic waste—from single-use bags to chemical-laden beverage containers to microbead cosmetic products—is impacting human, animal, and environmental health and posing increasing threats to the marine food chain around the globe.