For centuries Christians have observed Lent as the 40 days leading up to Easter Sunday. It's the time when we prepare ourselves to celebrate the resurrection of Jesus.As we face our own sinfulness, the question is, what kind of God do we believe we will experience in our most fractured places? If we look at the God that is revealed in the person of Jesus, here is what we find: The hands of this God are not hurling thunderbolts from heaven like Zeus of the Greek pantheon. The hands of this God have been stretched out in love where they were nailed to a tree. The nail-pierced hands of this God now reach out in love to every doubter, every sufferer, and to every wanderer. The hands of the God that is revealed in the person of Jesus are not hands of wrath but hands of mercy, forgiveness, and unending grace.