First Sunday in Lent

The Rev. Emily Boring Using the image of hovering over a deep ocean drop-off, the sermon explores human longing as a boundary between the finite and the infinite. Reframing Adam and Eve and Jesus in the wilderness as two responses to hunger, the preacher suggests that longing itself is not sin. Adam and Eve grasp to eliminate their limits, leading to alienation. Jesus inhabits his hunger with trust and dependence on God. Lent becomes a season to examine our own longings—not to suppress them, but to let them draw us into deeper relationship with the infinite source who alone can hold them.