Lent

Lent starts on Ash Wednesday (today) and ends at Easter. Ash Wednesday is typically celebrated by Catholics. They apply an ashen cross on their foreheads. The ash is to remind them that they come from dust and that some day they will return to dust.

The purpose of Lent is to be a season of fasting, discipline, repentance, Christian growth, and self-denial.  These disciplines are suppose to help transform our entire being – body, soul, and spirit.

These disciplines are to point us to Christ.  They are to help us become more like Christ.

Many churches don’t focus on Lent. They don’t want to turn people off.  They view it is too ritualistic. 

The truth is everything you practice during Lent can be done year round.  You don’t have to wait for Lent to repent of your sin, to fast for a change in your life, to focus your life on Christ.

So I asked my daughter what she was going to give up for Lent.  She replied, “being nice to my Mom.”  Then she laughed …..  Some days it just doesn’t pay to get up.