Lent Is Fast Approaching

That’s right, pancakes and Gumbo in a week, and then it’s forty days of sacrifice, discipline, worship, prayer, and meditation. This year as you consider giving up chocolates, diet cokes, or oatmeal raisin cookies for forty days, consider that your Lenten discipline involves not just the body, but your mind and spirit as well. The Hubbell Pew began years ago as a way to engage my spirit and mind during the Lenten season. I’m a huge proponent of the belief that in addition to giving something up you should take something on as well.

In that vein, we consider the Lenten season as a time for introspection, soul-searching, and self-improvement and renewal. But, to what end? If the only results of our Lenten discipline is improving ourselves that’s fine and good, but God and our heart call us beyond self. Injustice, poverty, hatred and  cruelty, live on the outside, and their victims need our hearts to expand beyond ourselves.

So, as you consider your discipline remember your mind and spirit, and ask yourself where is your heart needed by God.

 

PS: Thank you for reading the Pew!  My soon to be released novel, When Men Betray,is available for preorder at this  link.

 

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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.