4th week of Lent, Saturday – Look at your surroundings. Think how what you see – naturally existing or otherwise – has needed warmth or heat to come into existence. This element has been the catalyst for change. What has been the fire in your life? What moments in your life defined you? Without considering this as good or bad, thank God for this change and submit to this as part of who you are now…. Let your mind settle and relax.

4th week of Lent, Friday – Fire from Heaven – at Pentecost. I have never seen this happen but I have felt the warmth of someone living in God’s presence. Think of someone like this, who has affected you. Have you been this to someone else?

4th week of Lent, Thursday – Remember Moses and the burning bush? God speaks through a ‘bush’! How does God speak to you? Where do you find your burning bush? Can you talk to me about how you hear God in your life?

4th week of Lent, Wednesday – ‘Set to Fire to the Rain’, writes singer Adele. Like an Australian bushfire which is required to germinate some types of seeds, so too is fire needed in our lives. I don’t like it anymore than you do, but that doesn’t keep it away. I pray that God gives me the courage to live my life and you the courage to live yours. And might we help each other.

4th week of Lent, Tuesday –Burn some of last weeks’ grass in your candle…carefully. Watch the change. A fire destroys, while some say purifies. Both ways, for a human in this process, pain is involved. Much pain enters our lives, as a matter of course. Pain must be left to be pain. However, we don’t cling to or wallow in our pain. First we enter in, live in the pain, and breathe from inside the pain. Then we ultimately let go of pain. All creatures suffer – not only human ones. That means we can all contribute to bearing one another’s burdens. Who helps bear your burdens? Whose burdens do you bear?