today is Ash Wednesday in kansas city and you are being invited to be a part of a quiet community of people who, with ashes on their heads, give themselves to a process of exploration and creation during Lent.
forty days in the wilderness,
not for the wilderness
but for the burst of wildflowers
that carpets deserts and heals lepers
the idea behind the project is that you, me, and everyone else will work over the season of Lent to write, paint, compose, draw, sing, bake, play, sculpt, record, build and otherwise create around the theme : Practice Resurrection : and on or soon after Easter, we will gather in a yet-to-be-determined location to explode with Lenten energy on an Easter canvas.
a few premises:
you can write
you can paint
you can sing
you can play
because God is good and resurrection is real. if we're doing these things, then the whole act of being human disintegrates in nothingness and void. further:
the world does not know resurrection because its eyes are closed and christians have too often been content to let the situation stay that way.
so this is an opportunity, along with all your friends, to tear open the eyes of the world and learn what it means to jump into a pot of paint and thrash around for awhile, trusting that that may be the best possible use of your Lent.
pass this on, invite everyone, make some stuff and let's begin to learn the resurrection that is pressing in from the underside of lawns, the flip side of the night, the inside of tombs.
