Our Box of Repentances, preparing our hearts for Easter, is tucked into a corner of our Peace Retreat — because what peace is there without peace with God?
Dear Ann (imagine the lovely Wales accent!)
Thank you for the idea of the journal last week; it really inspired us and has led to an idea we are taking on for Lent.We are recycling an old cereal box and decorating it to make a “sorry box” where we will write or draw things we want to say sorry for. (It is sealed so no one can read what is in it. So the confession is secret if that is what the person prefers).
We will keep adding to it and decorating it till Easter when we will throw it away to symbolize Jesus casting away our sins as far as the East is from the West.
Thank you for the inspiration – I am looking forward to starting a thanks journal too!
In Him,
Sophie (Wales)
Come Easter morning, Sophie and family in Wales, and us in Canada (and perhaps you and yours too?), we’ll burn up our cards of sins confessed.
Because they are, astoundingly, no more, because of Christ who did it all.
And we’ll walk home with an empty box of repentance, giving thanks that He has written our names, not our sins, in His book of remembrance.
“I, even I, am the one who wipes out your transgressions for My own sake,
And I will not remember your sins.”
A repost from the archives
