Friday After Ash Wednesday

The Divine Test of a Person’s Worth is Not Theology but Life — Babylonian Talmud, Babba Kamma 38 a

One afternoon, I had lunch with a Catholic Priest along with a bunch of other men. The Priest was being peppered with questions, “How can you believe this, how can you believe that.” The table wanted him to repudiate certain doctrines of the Catholic faith. He listened for a while and said, “ I let Rome worry about theology, doctrine and dogma, I have my hands full with life.”

I doubt if he had studied the Babylonian Talmud, but he certainly had a handle on his ministry. He also had a handle on one of the essential gifts of Lent — putting ourselves back together to regain a sense of God.

During Lent we pray, we meditate, we sacrifice to bring ourselves closer to God. We don’t need to worry about what to believe; but instead, we focus on those obstacles in our life that separate us from God.Our Lenten journey is a process. On this third day of Lent, we ask God’s help with life and to be by our side during these 40 days. If we do belief will follow close behind.

PS: I know I have been too serious. Saturday is the day of mirth. Webb

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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.