Opening My Eyes During Lent

For Lent, part of my practice is participating in a "Photo-a-Day" challenge created by Rethink Church, sponsored by the United Methodist Church.  Rethink Church posts a blog every day with a longer narrative and Scripture to fully explain the theme, and, with lots of other folks, I take a photo that, for me, reflects the theme for the day. Using the lens of the day's word, I am asking every day, "Where do I see God in my life today? 

Here are the ones I posted during the first week:

Who Am I
A child of God, a wife, mother, student.

Return
Does returning to God mean returning to God through the red doors? What are alternatives?

See         Injustice
No image for these two days because the days' work got in the way, but  the reflection of where I "see injustice" is found in the bus stops on the south end of town, where the jobs are, but the buses don't run on Sundays. Can we open our eyes to see the ways people with less privilege than we have experience life?

Settle
To where have I followed God (Va., Pa., W.Va., NC, MN) and to where is God calling me next?

World
We cannot experience the world through packages; we have to meet living, breathing people.

Wonder
I expressed wonder that "What you see depends largely on where you sit." The axiom is true in life, as well as in art. This photo of a window in Duke Chapel was posted on their Facebook page.

Want to try it? Visit Rethink Church. You can get daily reminders via email, share on Twitter with #rethinkchurch and #40days, post photos on their Facebook wall or on their Pinterest. There are lots of ways to connect, and more importantly, to be in conversation with others who are listening for God in their lives every day, too.