1st Sunday of Lent

I try to use Lent to prepare my family to more fully appreciate Jesus' death and resurrection when we remember them on Good Friday & Easter. So each Sunday in Lent, we have a pre-Easter treat to get us thinking about/thanking God for who Jesus is and what He has done for us. This week I made edible candles to remind us of the words about Jesus from the gospel of John, chapter 1, verses 1-18 (below).

 

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God...Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. In him was life, and that life was the light of all mankind. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.

There was a man sent from God whose name was John. He came as a witness to testify concerning that light, so that through him all might believe. He himself was not the light; he came only as a witness to the light.

The true light that gives light to everyone was coming into the world. He was in the world, and though the world was made through him, the world did not recognize him. He came to that which was his own, but his own did not receive him. Yet to all who did receive him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God--children born not of natural descent, nor of human decision or a husband's will, but born of God.

The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the one and only Son, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth...

No one has ever seen God, but the one and only Son, who is himself God and is in closest relationship with the Father, has made him known.