God is about to do something in your life!
It doesn’t matter if you are 7, 17, 27, 37, 47, 57,67, 77, 87 years
old - God is about to do something in your life! Whether you come to church only
occasionally or every week - God is about to do something in your life.
Perhaps
you're a mom or a dad, busy with a thousand things to do and 10,000 things to
worry about; perhaps you are a youngster in the third grade; you might be a
middle school or high school student; maybe you’re retired; perhaps you live
alone; you might be a young single adult; you might be happy or sad, tired or
rested; perhaps you are engaged to be married or you may have been recently
widowed; perhaps you are separated or divorced; you might be a single parent;
you might love the Church or you might be fed up with the Church; maybe you
have forgotten about God, or you might think that God has forgotten about you:
whoever you are, God is about to do something in your life.
Do you have any idea, a thought, a notion of how God might
want to touch your life Ash Wednesday (February 22, 2023) and in the forty days of Lent that
follow? Perhaps you do! Perhaps you know, sense, intuit, fear or anticipate just what it is God may want to do in your life... Or perhaps what God might want to do in your life this Lent is a complete mystery to you... Either way, don’t doubt for a moment that
God waits to touch your heart in the holy season ahead of us. As a matter of
fact, no day in our lives goes by
without the Lord reaching out to touch us, to speak to us, to forgive us, to
heal us, to comfort and challenge us. But Lent is a time when we make an extra effort, for 40 days, to listen for God’s word, to ask
for his mercy, to open ourselves to
his healing touch, and to invite the
Lord to enter more deeply into our hearts and lives. At least for a season, we make a special effort to be open to God -
and you can be sure that God is ready to take advantage of our seasonal
readiness!
God is about to do something in your life.
Just what IS
Lent, anyway? LENT
is a season to do some spring-cleaning in the many rooms of our hearts and to
ready them for celebrating God’s gift of new life at Easter. LENT is a season to prepare for Easter by: prayer
(with the church and alone); fasting (learning to hunger for God); and generous giving
(caring for the poor). LENT is a time for getting back to basics:
to learn again and to practice for forty days how we should live as Christians
every day of the year. LENT is
a time for coming home: coming home to the Church community; coming home to prayer;
coming home to God. LENT
is spring training for Christians: a time to get in shape, spiritually; a time
to strengthen what is weak within us and tone up the strengths we have. LENT is a time to make the time to begin to actually do the things we so often say
we want and hope to do - but just never seem to have or make the time to get
around to doing them... LENT is a time for getting ready to
celebrate EASTER (April 9, 2023). Easter is at the heart of our life as
Christians and Lent is the way to prepare for Easter joy!
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