Learning How to Die {Lent 2013}

I am realizing, as the new Lenten season broadens around us, that my fears, my uncertainties about who this God I gave my heart to is really, that they're about dying.
Dying to myself and my selfishness, to what I want or think I want or think I deserve or think I am owed (dangerous ground).  
And nobody wants to do any dying of any kind, because death is hard and scary and out of our control.  
Death hurts. 
But as I read words of Lent (courtesy of Brandy), I begin to w...