What is Lent?
Yesterday, Ash Wednesday, began lent - the 40 day (minus Sundays) pilgrimage of Christian souls to the understanding of the passion of Jesus Christ. Lent is a time of drawing closer to Jesus by repentance - which includes letting go of lusts that all too often replace healthy passion. We lust after food, drink, thrills, things, sex...... We should be passionate about life and love and caring for others and the created order. During lent we review our lives - we evaluate what we truly worship and emulate as gods - then we try to chip away at anything we find which hidners our love relationship with the Creator God whom we understand through the incarnation in the person of Jesus of Nazareth. Lent is a challenging time. The faithful set aside time and resources to reach inward and serve outward. Christian pilgrims walk, talk, live and breathe - faith, hope, faithfulness, peace, passion, love, generosity - as part of the life God entrusts to us for the few years of this earthly existance. Let us learn to be good stewards of our blessings and truthful appraisers of what needs pruned (cut away) in our lives. Joy will be the result - maybe even exhuberance.
posted by RevLinda at 3:55 PM
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Can one really find true happiness through God alone? I've read many passages and books lately that said we can only find true love and happiness through God. I believe that God must be with us each and every day but isin't there more than just God? What about being stewards of God's word by bringing love and comfort to others.
God is in everything. The entire created order and all the living things therein are part of the creator God. So when we are good stewards and compassionate people we are being so towards God.
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