Lent. It's a season when many of us are diligently trying to keep ourselves from something that we love for 40 days. But it's that mindset that proves how much we don't know about the Lenten Fast.
What I'm learning is that Lent is more than just a fast. It is my opportunity to abide and commune with God. It's my opportunity to meet the Lord in a whole new way, but I will miss that if I focus on what I'm not able to do for the next during the fast.
Rev. Candance L. Greene is an ordained Itinerant Deacon in the African Methodist Episcopal Church. She is the 2023-2024 Hooper-Keefe Preaching Award recipient. Chosen by the faculty at Fuller Theology Seminary, this award is given to students who have shown an outstanding giftedness in Homiletics (preaching).
Rev. Candance is a published writer, podcaster and the founder of Cherishedflight, a ministry dedicated to helping people realign with the peace of God. She has produced over 100 episodes of Cherishedflight the Podcast where she shares biblical steps her listeners can take to implement the peace of God in their lives on a daily basis.
Candance is a graduate of Paine College where she earned a BA in English, and Goucher College where she earned an MFA in Creative Nonfiction Writing. She has been published in a variety of anthologies, scholarly books, and journals including: Bittersweet: An Anthology of Contemporary Black Women’s Poetry; Brevity: A Journal of Concise Literary Nonfiction; Fearless Confessions: A Writer’s Guide to Memoir; and the Huffington Post. A native of Nashville, Candance now resides in Baltimore with her husband and three children.