Wednesday: First Week in Lent Year B

Lent for Everyone
Mark Year B
WEEK 1: WEDNESDAY...

...I stood by the side of the stream and scratched my head. There used to be a bridge there, but it had been washed away in a storm some years before. I suspect the locals – this was in a remote area of the Scottish highlands – were quite happy that
it hadn’t been rebuilt. No cars, not even tractors, could drive any further up their unspoilt valley. Now only walkers could pass that way; and the only walkers who could do it would be those prepared to ford the stream.

There were only two solid rocks I could see that would give me a firm foothold. For the rest, I’d have to splash and hope; but I knew if I made it, first to one rock, then to the other, I’d get across all right. It worked.

For generations people reading the gospels have wondered, quite naturally, just how much they can trust the gospels. Sceptics have suggested that it was all made up later to boost the church’s picture of the Jesus it worshipped...

Taken from Lent for Everyone Mark Year B by Tom Wright