ash wednesday.
I wish everyone a meaningful lenten season – whatever that might translate to for you. I’m still figuring out what it means to me – it’s the part of the liturgical calendar I still struggle with the most, and probably get the most out of.
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February 25, 2009 at 2:15 pm
Wishing you a beautiful season of Lent. This journey through these next 40 days is a transforming one indeed… if you are open to the spirit.
I number of years ago, I was introduced to a book called Choosing Joy for Lent by Marilyn Norquist Gustin. It changed my perspective on this season. Below is a quote from this book.
“We so easily fall into the notion that Lent is some teeth-gritting, miserable discipline to be endured for the days of Lent and then abandoned immediately on Easter morning. With such an attitude, effort easily becomes superficial, unconvincing, and boring. The genuine power of Lent is lost to us.
Lent is, rather, for particular attention to an aspect of ourselves that we would like to see changed — preferable a change that would endure. To that end, our efforts and the grace of the Holy Spirit combine in a definite transformation. Our Lenten transformation then becomes one step in a long series of changes that finally creates us completely new.
If we do not wish to cooperate with this transformational process, to give both our cheerful assent and our strong efforts to the Spirit’s work, no one will force us to it. God, through Christ, invites — sometimes urgently and always persistently — but never forces. Full participation in Lent is a magnificent method of cooperating if we wish.”
May the Holy Spirit touch you to the core this Lenten Season!
OX
Enny
March 1, 2009 at 3:59 am
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