If it is possible to fail in my lenten practice, last week I did. However, maybe the only way to truly fail at Lent is to not even notice that there has been "failure". Essentially, the season of Lent is about preparing in our hearts to mourn the death of Christ, to recognize our own mortality and to prepare for the celebration of the New Life we have in Jesus. Therefore, to be "unsuccessful" in giving up what I set out to give up brings me to a place of deep recognition of my own mortality. I cannot be successful in turning my heart to God on my own. Life in this world is filled with noise and distraction. The ability to even quite my own heart and mind feels so far beyond my control. This is my mortality. My finitude.
So this week is fresh. The battle continues with in me. What will win? Stillness and peace or noise and distraction? A general sense that things will one day be right in this world? Or that the world will consume me?
All go to the same place; all come from dust, and to dust all return. Ecclesiastes 3:20
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