When Faith Feels Dry

Dear Friends,

We are nearing the end of Lent. With us drawing nearer and nearer to Holy Week, the church invites us to pause for a moment and notice where we are in the journey. Lent is not a season that rushes. It moves slowly and intentionally, asking us to pay attention to the places in our lives where faith feels stretched, where hope feels thin, and where we might feel a little spiritually dry.

Lent makes room for the valleys, the places where we feel tired, uncertain, or even a bit disconnected from God. Rather than avoiding those spaces, the season gently leads us into them with the quiet assurance that God is not afraid of what we might find there.

The book of Ezekiel gives us a powerful image of standing in the middle of something that looks lifeless and asking an uncomfortable question: can life return here? It’s the kind of question many of us carry in different ways about our own hearts, our relationships, our communities, and even the church itself.

Lent reminds us that faith does not mean pretending everything is fine. Sometimes faith simply means standing in the valley and listening. Listening for the voice of God that still speaks into places that feel worn down or scattered.

As we enter this final stretch before Holy Week, the invitation is simple: don’t rush past the valley. Stay present to the journey. Notice where God might already be stirring something new, even if it begins quietly.

After all, the story we are moving toward is one where life has a way of appearing in the most unexpected places. And we are almost there.

Peace and Grace,
Father Logan