Where the Eye Alights: Phrases for the Forty Days of Lent
Overview
Lent is about more than going to church on weekdays and giving up chocolate or social media. It’s also a time to form one’s heart and mind through study and prayer. In Where the Eye Alights, Marilyn McEntyre offers forty short meditations, based on excerpts from Scripture and poetry, that guide readers on a devotional journey from Ash Wednesday through Holy Saturday. As in lectio divina—the spiritual practice of reading Scripture repetitively and meditatively—McEntyre invites us to notice words that may give us pause and summon us to reflection. This book calls our attention to how the Spirit speaks through phrases that can open doors to deep places for those willing to sit still with them.
“Lent is a time of permission,” says McEntyre. “Many of us find it hard to give ourselves permission to pause, to sit still, to reflect or meditate or pray in the midst of daily occupations—most of them very likely worthy in themselves—that fill our waking minds and propel us out of bed and on to the next thing. We need the explicit invitation the liturgical year provides to change pace, to curtail our busyness a bit, to make our times with self and God a little more spacious, a little more leisurely, and see what comes. The reflections I offer here come from a very simple practice of daily reflection on whatever has come to mind in the quiet of early morning.”
- Offers forty short meditations, based on excerpts from Scripture and poetry
- Guides readers on a devotional journey from Ash Wednesday through Holy Saturday
- Calls attention to how the Spirit speaks through phrases
- Preface
- Remember that you are dust . . .
- Into the wilderness
- Watch and pray
- Repentance and rest
- Broader than the measures of the mind
- Like birds hovering
- Every riven thing
- Centering first
- Unfolding
- A people prepared
- By every word
- Lovely in limbs, and lovely in eyes not his
- Their humble little souls
- Going about our business
- Like pollen or manna
- A way of knowing
- Love in the open hand
- We’ll pass it on to you
- Where we walk
- Loving listening
- “I don’t have all the time in the world, but I have all night”
- Getting the news from poems
- Could I have a word?
- Suffer the little children
- Weep with those who weep
- Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori
- Riding on the wind
- Recognition and epiphany
- Evils done on our behalf
- Prayer is a place
- And the Spirit of God came upon him
- Imitation of Christ
- Too much with us
- A multitude keeping festival
- Money changing
- What is common to mankind
- Whom shall I fear?
- Different from all other nights
- Stations of the Cross
- The harrowing of hell
- Title: Where the Eye Alights: Phrases for the Forty Days of Lent
- Author: Marilyn Chandler McEntyre
- Publisher: Eerdmans
- Print Publication Date: 2021
- Logos Release Date: 2020
- Pages: 122
- Era: era:contemporary
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subject: Lent › Meditations
- ISBNs: 9780802876980, 0802876986
- Resource ID: LLS:WHRYLGHTSDYSLNT
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-30T03:46:40Z