I came into Lent kind of jokingly thinking that the song, "Total Eclipse of the Heart," provides a good overarching theme for the season. The repeated refrain of "turn around." The little reminders throughout of how we have fallen short and how we rely on someone outside of ourselves to help us through. It started as something of a joke, but each week seems to fit the part of the song that follows the previous week.
When I was initially planning out my themes for the season, I settled on the Jeremiah reading for today (Jeremiah 31:31-34). I felt like this readings helps to give some context to everything else going on in Lent. Jesus is saying and doing these things because God is making a new covenant with us. Jesus shows us what a life lived with God's instruction written on our hearts can look like. God lives in us.
And when we show the rest of the world the grace that God has given us, we make the world a better place.