“Returning to the Hands of God”

Ps 51:1-12

This is where our Lenten journey begins. Creation, matter, dirt from the earth, our humble origins. The Spirit of God, breathing, animating, filling with life. The Word of God, speaking, ordering, bringing harmony into chaos. Us being made in the image and likeness of God, from the dust, by God’s Son and Spirit. These are the two hands of God, as St. Irenaeus of Lyons put it—the Word and the Spirit, the living means of both our earthly and our eternal life. Today we will consider sin as our rejection of God’s hands and repentance as our return to God’s hands.