Lent: The Gift of the Valley

This week's episode features a conversation about why the seasons we share in the "Valley" can be embraced as gifts that propel us in empathy for those who share a broken reality. Empathy is an important and powerful expression of love that reciprocates the hospitality, comfort, and healing we receive and can share in knowing that Christ understands our fragility, loneliness, and despair. What we can glean from Jesus' Lenten experience is that he empathizes with our sorrow and pain, understands our story, and enables us to empathize and love others as he had done for us.