Rev. Megan
Berkowitz
Rev. Amy
Clark Feldman
Pastor Megan
March 21 2025
Dear Church,
I gave up social media for Lent this year. I’ve tried it in past years, and it never quite stuck. I always found reasons to log back in: an urgent question for a group of colleagues, a video of Rosey that was too good not to share, or even just an accidental slip. It’s sticking this year, though. I committed to staying off social media this Lent not just as a fast, to give up something that I know I use in excess, but in keeping with our “Making Space” theme.
As the year began, I started to realize that my spirit was flagging. I know many of you have been feeling the same! So, as Lent began, I took inventory of what I needed more of in order to get a kind of spiritual reset, and to refocus my heart on God. I wanted to make space for hopefulness in my life. I wanted to make space for reading news firsthand and coming to my own conclusions. And, I wanted to make space for boredom (really!).
We’re only a few weeks in, and I definitely haven’t cured myself of the impulse to scroll when I feel bored. I have started to make a little space, though, and I can sense the way the Spirit is making use of that space. I pray that whatever it is you commit yourself to this Lent – and it’s not too late to start – that you feel the Spirit settling in to the space you make, as well.
With Lenten Peace,
Pastor Megan
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