Lent 3, Year C Exodus 3:1-15 A few weeks ago at the Lenten retreat here, we were gathered in this space sharing stories and thinking about our lives as part of God’s story. It was a wonderful group of people and the sharing was holy and good, but not far into the morning I found that what I was really craving was silence and my own space, so I ventured off to the couch in my office and opened up the book I’ve been working on for Lent. My attempted Lenten practice this year has centered around lectio divina, a way of praying with the words and images of scripture. Lectio divina, or “sacred reading” is a way of slowly reading scripture not for study or content but to listen for how God might be speaking to us through it. This way of praying understands scripture not as “written once to remain fossilized” for all time, but as continuing to reveal God’s wisdom in the unique circumstances of our lives. In lectio, you read some small portion of scripture slowly and list