Jesus –
The Holy Spirit led you into the wilderness, and you entered that dry place wet with Your baptismal waters.
In following Your journey, we encounter our own.
Filled by the Holy Spirit, we too, become wilderness travelers…marking the dust as our baptismal waters drip onto the ground.
We, too, encounter tests at opportune times. Strengthen us, so we may we respond to these tests of greed, power, and destruction with Your true words.
In this wilderness, may we remember our baptism, and may we remember that the devil does not have the final say.
Amen and amen.
(The First Sunday in Lent is March 6.)