I recently learned the art word, pentimento, which is “the presence or emergence of earlier images, forms, strokes painted over.” It’s also the Italian word for repentance.

“The more I walk with God and God walks with me, the more I come into the full-orbed significance of who I am and what I am…” -Howard Thurman, The Message of Micah

Grace leaves tracks, and we are on this journey together.

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This is work in process for Lent, part of a collection, “Finding Our Rhythm in the Fullness of Time,” commissioned for Valparaiso University’s Institute of Liturgical Studies gathering in April 2023. More info about that event here – https://www.valpo.edu/institute-of-liturgical-studies/theme/.