Drawing Near
Lent is quickly approaching. In fact, we are just a week away. Are you ready?
It seems that Lent often catches us off guard, particularly when it begins as early as it does this year. Have you started to think about how you will embrace the Lenten practices of prayer, fasting, and alms-giving? I encourage you to take time in the next week to reflect on the things that pull you further away from God – do you lose hours on end binge watching the latest show online? Do have such a busy schedule that there is no time for prayer or reflection? Do you have a guilty pleasure that you spend too much time with? These sorts of questions that cause us to reflect on where we spend our minutes, hours, and days can quickly lead us to better understand what might be fruitful to give up for Lent. Perhaps it is letting go of our online TV watching or changing our commitments so we have time to enter into prayer and to take care of ourselves.
Lent is an opportunity to draw closer to God, to encounter his mercy. Where is God calling to you? What might you be able to offer up as a sacrifice to grow in your relationship to God?
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