Pack For The Wilderness

My friends Casey and Tom can travel for weeks with only a backpack. I wouldn’t be surprised if there weren’t formal clothes hidden somewhere in their backpacks just in case they need it. I on the other hand can go to my favorite place for a few days — the beach, needing only T-shirts and bathing trunks, yet somehow the car is full of stuff.

Lent provides an opportunity to pack better, and no I don’t mean suitcases or carry-on’s. I mean what we should and shouldn’t carry about in our life. It’s an opportunity to focus on what we really need. Over the year we add to our baggage emotional weight — obsessions, addictions, attractions, worries, and expectations. Lent is a time to let them all go.

I read recently that Lent is a time we follow Jesus into the wilderness, if that is so I would recommend we travel lightly, so we can stay close to God.

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About the author

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.