You can’t help someone get up a hill without getting closer to the top yourself. — Norman Schwarzkopf I can’t think of a better visual to describe the Lenten Season than climbing a mountain, except for Schwarzkopf’s visual of helping someone climb it with you. Each step up the mountain gets you closer to the top,…
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Ash Wednesday — 2018 — Valentine’s Day
Somehow it feels unfair for Valentine’s Day to fall on Ash Wednesday doesn’t it? What are you giving up for Lent — Chocolate, Champagne, Going out to eat? Just when you want to dive in to the box of Russell Stover Turtles your loved one gave you or she/he returned, it’s Ash Wednesday. Thank goodness…
Attachments That Stick Like Glue
Attachment is the mind stuck to an object. — Lama Zopa Rinpoche, The Door to Satisfaction The Lenten Season is the perfect time to lose attachments to objects, whether it be the object that is the subject of our fast or an attachment that inhibits our service to a neighbor. I would also suggest to the Lama…
Abstinence Is Easier Than Moderation
Total abstinence is easier than perfect moderation — St. Augustine I love this quote because it is so vey true. The Lenten season brings this wisdom home for me every year. One oatmeal raisin cookie will send me off on a bender, where if I can totally abstain I might just make it forty days. (Notice…
Lent Is a Season of Gifts
Lent is a season of gifts. Think about it. Through prayer, meditation, fasting, and service we become what the Buddhists refer to as mindful. More aware is another way to put it. Every person we encounter brings us gifts whether they be life’s lessons, a part of a culture with which we are not familiar,…