Lent is our invitation to renewal, to return, to be radically changed, to be raised from all that is death-dealing in our lives.

The Scottish poet, Edwin Muir, at the end of the Second World War, wrote a very personal prayer-poem on the Transfiguration. Muir captures in words what we seek and the world needs during this season of grace.  He writes:

• But he will come again, it’s said, though not
  Unwanted and unsummoned; for all things,
  Beasts of the field, and woods, and rocks, and seas,
  And all mankind from end to end of the earth
  Will call him with one voice. In our own time,
  Some say, or at a time when time is ripe.
  Then he will come, Christ the uncrucified,
  Christ the discrucified, his death undone,
  His agony unmade, his cross dismantled—
  Glad to be so—and the tormented wood
  Will cure its hurt and grow into a tree
  In a green springing corner of young Eden,
  And Judas damned take his long journey backward
  From darkness into light and be a child
  Beside his mother’s knee, and the betrayal
  Be quite undone and never more be done.