Thursday in the Second Week of Lent

Finally you understand the real motorcycle you are working on is yourself — Robert M. Pirsig, Zen And The Art Of Motorcycle Maintenance.

At some time and place in our lives we realize we can’t change others or events beyond our control. We realize the repairing that is needed is within ourselves. We take in our car for regular maintenance. We schedule once or twice a year the heating and air person to service the main unit. We, ( sorry Suzy I know I am not the one who does this ), add preemergence to the grass so to have it come out in spring weed free and thicker. There are so many maintenance items we schedule like clock work, but we forget to go in for a regular maintenance on ourselves. Lent can be that time.

Lent is a time to work on ourselves just as Pirsig reminds. We fast, pray, mediate, and serve to retune our lives. It is a time to petition God to bring us comfort, inner peace, and lead us to the calling he has for each of us and to bask in God’s presence. As we approach the Second Sunday in Lent we are tempted to go back to our old habits, to fix someone else’s motorcycle. “My life is running just fine,” we say; eventhough, it really isn’t. It takes 40 days to clean and fix every screw and bolt of our makeup, if we are patient in our work on ourself. The Lenten season is one of God’s many gifts to us. Use everyday of it to honor God by honoring yourself.

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Webb Hubbell is the former Associate Attorney General of The United States. His novels, When Men Betray, Ginger Snaps, A Game of Inches, The Eighteenth Green, and The East End are published by Beaufort Books and are available online or at your local bookstore. When Men Betray won one of the IndieFab awards for best novel in 2014. Ginger Snaps and The Eighteenth Green won the IPPY Awards Gold Medal for best suspense/thriller. His latest, “Light of Day” will be on the bookstands soon.