Lent Is In The Air
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Wife, mother, blogger, Catholic ministry. I love to garden even when it goes wrong. Same with writing (and we know it can go wrong.) Believing that God is present in all of it.
To my relief, he grabbed a bag that was most important to me. It’s the one I was hoping to take with me. It carries all of my love, for him, for me, for everyone I know, for the earth and for our world. It was one of the bags I couldn’t just leave behind….
As many of you know, I began blogging as a Lenten experience a couple of years ago. It consisted of daily reflections, a couple of resources and prayers. The name is Lent Thing (and the number has changed with the years) and was named after the experience that I had while in college with my…
It feels as though in some ways we have been reliving and reliving that old Lenten feeling. Sure, we have had periodic reprieves where we are able to come up for air, bask in the sun and feel a little careless, but those days seem far too fleeting. Many of us have done our best…
Each Ash Wednesday we hear the Prophet Joel remind us to “rend your hearts, not your garments, and return to the Lord your God.” Today, the word “rend” caught my attention. (Rend, meaning “to tear apart (violently); rip in two” according to the Oxford Dictionary). We know that Joel is referencing the traditional Old Testament…