Lent begins.
The older I get the more I have come to love this season of penitence and giving over more of my life to God. It is a time of introspection, intentional sacrifice and deepening of love for Him. It is a time that is set aside for prayer and thinking about how to live, and how to surrender. So much of my life has been about me. My feelings, my needs, my future and my concerns. Every year Lent strips a little more of the me from my life, and fills it in with Him. His love, His desires, His plan and how I fit into all of it. It is so freeing, and it is His gift. A time for reflecting on what He has done for us, and how immense His love is.
This year we are back to the wonderful traditions that Covid had disallowed. We will once again have Stations of the Cross inside the Church. We will have additional opportunities for Confession, We will be able to have times of communal prayer and penitence and we will have an awesome parish mission!
What a gift we have in this time and place.
