A Call to Renewal: A Holy Week Reflection
Introducing Terrell Barnes, Community Renewal Society's Manager for Policy and Organizing!
Scripture passages to reflect on:
Lent in many ways is a yearly reset. It may also serve as a mile marker. The sacred days culminating with Easter can remind us where our purpose stems from, offering optimal pause for reflection. One such reflection may be that in the seasonal changes of life, we are challenged.
Winter tests us. Winter is necessary to ensure we are not the knights of summer on the battlefield of renewal. Forged in the reflection of fall and the toughness of winter, spring calls on us to recommit to our divine purpose.
The awakening of spring calls on us to walk confidently into the summer of toiling in service alongside comrades and in Beloved Community. Easter's awakening allows us to gather fall's harvest with audacious hope.
Service and faith are interconnected. There are outcomes, setbacks and the need to recommit to the humble call to do justice in service. We must also know when our body, mind and soul requires the sacredness of stillness. Embracing the quiet is a bold act of self-love and servant care.
On balance, every season runs on a cyclical period of spiritual renewal. It is the renewed spirit from time to time that ignites our mission to eradicate racism and poverty. As we approach an empty entombment this Holy season, may it serve as a restorative call to renewal.
Community Renewal Society honors the sacred observations of Ramadan, Passover and Easter -- each respectively steeped in Abrahamic traditions. We hold our world in love and prayer.
Terrell Barnes, CRS Manager for Policy and Organizing