Saturday – March 21
Scripture: Ezekiel 37:1–14
The valley is full of bones—dry, scattered, lifeless. Ezekiel is asked an impossible question: “Can
these bones live?”
The prophet does not answer with optimism or despair. He answers with humility: “O Lord God, you
know.”
Exile had drained hope from Israel. Identity felt fractured. The future appeared sealed shut. Yet God commands the prophet to speak—to
prophesy breath into what seemed beyond repair.
We know valleys like this. Congregations
weary from conflict. Communities
fractured by polarization. Justice
efforts stalled. Personal dreams
abandoned. Sometimes the dryness is
external; sometimes it is interior.
The Spirit does not deny the dryness. The Spirit enters it.
Breath—the same breath that animated creation—moves again. Tendons form. Flesh returns. Life stands up.
Lent teaches us to name the bones honestly. But it also trains us to speak hope
courageously.
We are not naïve about brokenness. We are faithful about possibility.
Resurrection does not begin on Easter morning. It begins whenever God breathes where we had
given up.
Reflection Questions
- Where do I see dry bones—in
myself, in the Church, in the world?
- Do I dare believe renewal is
possible?
- What hopeful word might I speak
into a barren place?
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