In the second week of Lent, we meet Jesus as he presses on in the work he has been called to do and on his road towards Jerusalem – despite dire warnings about what awaits him. In one of the most tenderly feminine images in Scripture, he speaks of God’s constant yearning to gather and shelter us like a mother hen. Why do we resist so? And how may the stark contrasts of a city ruled by a fox and a mother hen God shape us in the Lenten season?
