I tell people I became an Episcopalian because of Shrove Tuesday, when in fact it’s because I married one. But, after attending my first Shrove Tuesday event at Trinity Episcopal I was truly converted. There were pancakes, scrambled eggs, cheese grits, bacon and sausage, etc. The Dean of the Cathedral was leading a jazz band while people ate, visited, and partied. It was a happening.
Maybe I was so amazed because I grew up believing pancakes were a treat reserved for a weekend at Grandmother Erwin’s. But here I was in church having pancakes, listening to really fine music, and felt a warmth that I remember to this day.
Tomorrow all that changes, but then again it doesn’t. That same warmth that comes from a full belly of pancakes and that last glass of wine before Lent begins, is replaced by a different but just as rewarding warmth, if not more so. It comes from our proximity to that person God put us on earth to be. As we spend forty days and night exploring and becoming familiar with that individual, physical and material needs are replaced with the spiritual, and we find them to be much more fulfilling.
Good Lent my friends. See you tomorrow.
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