Call To Worship
Leader: You’re here! Winter seems displaced by the new growth of spring. This is the fifth Sunday in Lent — with one more to come: Palm Sunday.
(Candles counting the Sundays in Lent can be lighted.)
People: We are glad for the longer days and enjoy later sunsets and the brightness of the rising moon.
Leader: This very moment is ours to appreciate. Scriptures tell us not to dwell on the past but to watch for the new things that God is doing.
People: In the spring light, we let go of old guilt and as Easter comes, we relish new energies in nature and in our own souls.
Leader: Thank God for resurrecting us and all creation!
People: Thank God for Jesus, his teaching, his dying, and his rising again!

Prayer Of Thanksgiving
Living God — how happy we are when beauty and goodness…