“Tremble” and “What You Missed That Day You Were Absent From Fourth Grade”

This Lent, the Jesuit Conference is invited Ignatian writers to meditate upon a poem and a song that inspires them during this season. Art, we believe, helps us deepen our understanding of God in our world and our lives.

As we make our way through Lent, we act against the temptation to assume all forty of these days must be gloomy. In fact, in the Lenten sparsity, we find beauty and hope — and these poems and songs will point to exactly that.

Here are my reflections on I AM THEY’s “Tremble” and Brad Aaron Modlin’s What You Missed That Day You Were Absent from Fourth Grade.