I been observing Lent season for the past 5 or 6 years. I wasn't raised with this tradition and I don't fast because I feel like I have to. The community I run with is all about not doing things because we always have or because we feel obligated. Everything we do should overflow out of a desire for loving God and others. Sometimes I don't feel like doing though, and that's when discipline helps. So, my friend Nikki asked me today what I have been experiencing this year. So, this Lent I've been blessed by a friend who has found freedom in her relationship with God and has had an 'ah ha' moment after 50 years of life. I've been comforted by remembering Jesus' experience of this same struggling life. I've also experienced some hard moments of realizing true community and friendship is hard, and it hurts sometimes. I've had a lot of thankfulness for my marriage, my kids, and my family and friends.
I hope you also take some time this week to remember. You have to be diligent, or time will pass by and it will be Easter Sunday. I used to wait until Easter Sunday to wake up and experience all the emotion of what that day stands for. I would try to grieve and celebrate all within a hour long service.
Jesus took the bread, broke it and said 'this is my body which is broken for you. When you do this, do it in the rememberance of me.'
"The words were everything. They were the whole of my life as I had ever felt it and the whole of beauty as I had ever dared to suspect it." P. Tickle
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I love reading your blog! I learn so much about you. It's just a good reminder that there is so much more to people than can be known in the amount of time we get to spend together. Thanks for sharing some of the many different layers of you.
So you post on Holy Week and I post on the NCAA tournament. Apparently I need some churching.
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