I’m hoping to do a some sort of thought each day for Lent! Not sure it’s going to happen but I find myself starting with a glance through photos I’ve taken. This one, from a few months ago, is of Alpha “manning” the phone!!
Some calls are welcome, others not; some urgent and, again, others not. I sometimes wonder about caller-displays. There was a time we picked up the phone having no idea who was on the other end. Now we check the name before we answer and there can be a great reluctance to answer the one presenting as “private caller”.
We are all perhaps waiting for a call. Maybe today we hear again, in these early days of Lent, the call – not from “Private Caller” but from God through the pages of Scripture:
“Come back to me with hearts renewed” or, in the words of the child from the famous Dublin School recordings: “Give up you aul sins”!!