It’s Ash Wednesday again, and before 10 a.m. I already had eaten a Three Musketeer Bar. But I’m not giving up chocolate for Lent, so that’s ok. Right? For the next seven weeks, I’ll go on eating meat on Fridays, I will probably slip up and sing an Alleluia on Sundays, and the fast I […] Read more
Life kind of got the better of me over the past week, and making time to reflect on Lent in this little space has been difficult. Forgive me if you showed up each day to find me missing. Life kind of got the better of my other Lenten intentions as well, and I have found […] Read more
For the past couple of weeks, I have led life one day at a time. All plans have been written in pencil, and more than once recently my day has turned out completely different than I had planned. That’s what life is like in the wilderness. Though God may have our days completely mapped out, […] Read more
Today we begin our descent into the wilderness of Lent. The wilderness metaphor associated with Lent refers to the 40 days of testing that Jesus endured as he began his ministry. That period for Jesus was foreshadowed by the 40 years of wilderness wandering of the Israelites between the slavery of Egypt and the wide […] Read more
