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Second Sunday of Lent * March 1, 2026
Communion Sunday
Scripture Readings
New Revised Standard Version (Updated Edition)
Psalm 121
1 I lift up my eyes to the hills—
from where will my help come?
2 My help comes from God,
who made heaven and earth.
3 Who will not let your foot be moved;
The One who keeps you will not slumber.
4 The One who keeps Israel
will neither slumber nor sleep.
5 The Holy One is your keeper;
And your shade at your right hand.
6 The sun shall not strike you by day
nor the moon by night.
7 The Lord will keep you from all evil;
And will keep your life.
8 Our God will keep
your going out and your coming in
from this time on and forevermore.
Genesis 12:1-3
1 Now the Lord said to Abram, “Go from your country and your kindred and your father’s house to the land that I will show you. 2 I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you and make your name great, so that you will be a blessing. 3 I will bless those who bless you, and the one who curses you I will curse, and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.”
Reflection
“Lift Your Eyes”
“Self-care is an act of faithful stewardship whereby we graciously and gratefully tend to the health and well-being of the divine gift that is our lives…. [T]he practice of self-care… resists the powers and principalities of a hyper-capitalist system.”
Sacred Self-Care by Chanequa Walker-Barnes
We do not know where we are going. ‘Lifting our eyes’ helps to steady us,
helps us recognize who guards and guides us.
Rev. Dr. Sandy Tice
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