Lent is coming

I wonder how many of my readers out there have ever walked with Jesus in this Journey known as Lent?  If so, have you considered how counter-cultural this is? It doesn't seem to fit the glittering cathedrals of prosperity we have made of most of our lives.

I feel that much of modern American Christianity is focused on what can we get from God, how we can be blessed, how we can prosper in material ways, as good middle class people should.  Lent helps me to focus on another way, a conscious and deliberate retreat from our so-called "Christian" culture. 

 Soon ashes will be imposed on our foreheads and our Lenten disciplines traditionally begin. I see that moment as a kind of doorway into a space in time that calls us to stop whatever we are doing, no matter how important it might be, and enter more intentionally into the disciplines of prayer, self-examination and repentance. This is an entering into the historicity of Jesus, and His story.  We can walk and fast as He did, with Him.

Consider this time, step through that doorway into specific intentionality, come follow Jesus these 40 days of fasting.

Comments

[Jeff]

I think I will.