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“Come, follow me,” he said, “and I’ll show you how to fish for people.”

—Matthew 4:19

God always invites. There’s no need for coercion, manipulation, or force. The invitation is always rooted in relationship, a desire to restore connection so that we can live into fullness.

It is a two-way street. God wants us to reconcile and wants us to follow on a different path. Often we convince ourselves that the path that we have been on is the path toward fruitfulness and new life. We then ask God to bless our path, to come with us along the way. This Lenten season, I want you to remember that God is inviting us to follow in a different path, in the path that God showed us in Jesus.

The path that we are called to follow is a path on which we engage ourselves, the other, and God in the way of invitation. We encounter others with the patience and space of one who fishes. We find the places where others gather who need healing, reconciliation, and new life. We calmly engage, calmly throwing the net to see what we might catch. We go out into the “sea,” the places where we live, work, and play day after day to fish with Jesus for people.

This Lenten season, pay attention. God will never force but is constantly inviting. Constantly calling us to be in relationship with our true self, with the other, and with God. You, too, are being called into a new journey, no longer alone but in relationship with the other, fishing for people, sharing the one who called you.

Breath Prayer:

Speak, Lord, . . . and help me hear your call.