Happy first day of Lent! I've set myself a challenge this year, to rediscover this season and what it really means for me. Check out this blog http://mustardseedjourney.wordpress.com/ and http://mustardseedjourney.files.wordpress.com/2007/02/a-journey-into-wholeness-lenten-series.pdf Can't remember how I came across it - maybes the 24-7 website? But anyways, I think this stuff is cool. So far I've learnt that Lent is not about sacrifice or deprivation, and in the early church it was seen as a time of preparation for those about to be baptised - very cool. I've always associated it with the classic giving up of chocolate or crisps, or spent it worrying about people who were giving up eating for 40 days and nights....who could forget Caleb living on milk during the Langdale road era!? But actually it's a time of preparation, working towards something - and that something is pretty darn spectacular - you might say the ultimate goal, namely Jesus' death and resurrection. I believe this happened, I live my life a certain way, I belong to God, but Lent - for me, even when I decided to become a Christian - has always been the tokenistic vibe of self-deprivation of something that's not actually that difficult to go without and basically a pseudo-virtuous 'Oh I'm not eating chocolate for God blah blah blah bobbins' but really it's about (a) being on a diet and (b) the cleansing of the system before the onslaught of choco-mania that is Easter Day. I am shocked at my admission of this but nonotheless it's true - I feel appalled that I am utterly subscribed to the crappy view of Easter and the run up to it.....so I'm changing it. I know what I should do too, I should get a group of people together once a week for the next 6 weeks to go through this journey juntos, to prepare us for the most important time of year (or is that Christmas?? Chicken or egg really innit!!) - but I'm SCARED! Plus I'm lazy and don't want to have to lead it BUT somehow I know that this won't be half as much fun, struggle, laugh, challenge, ass-whup etc etc without the people I love.
Note to self: strap on a pair!!!
Ps. 51 vs. 10 - 16
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oh liz...sounds ace....do it do it...wish i could be nearer to walk it with you...love you...you rock...really truly are a gem....
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I never understood the whole lent thing. I thought it was the catholic religion that practiced that? Here I was looking into cleansing my colon but this sacrifice sounds so much better! LOL
My 2nd comment in one sitting- go me! I started my lent by happening upon the Ash Wednesday service in St Peter's, Rome. I then got ash put on my head by who I thought might have been the pope but turned out to just be a cardinal- the disappointment! You aren't going to change your Easter Sunday celebrations are you? I'm already in training for the easter egg hunt! xoxo
I never understood that either, thanks for telling me.
You're gonna be just fine! =)
You gotta eat chocolate on easter, it's a crime not too! LOL kidding hun
*i'm with ya 100%
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