What Lent Has Taught Me

"Therese Martin as a Carmelite Nun" @ Art.com

Lent has not taught me that I'm weak or full of sin. It's taught me how to be here not way over "there."

When I was a kid, Lent was a time when I gave up candy, TV and meat on Fridays, which was cool because mom would sometimes drive to McDonalds for fillet o'fish meals! But somewhere in my 20′s I would realize I'd forgotten Lent when Easter sprang out of nowhere. In my 30′s I resurrected (oh, bad word choice!) … where was I? In my 30′s I practiced ...