Your invitation to #aBirdFromTheLord

Join me for a simple, soulful Lenten practice

(Great Blue Heron photographed in the San Joaquin Marsh)

Lent begins this Wednesday, March 5. I know, I know, it always sneaks up on me, too. (And I’m a member of the clergy! We have no excuse!)

I’ll stand in our church’s sanctuary in my black robe, dip my finger in ash, and draw the sign of the cross on the foreheads of my congregants. I will pronounce t…