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Lent 2012 – Day 10 (Friday)

He thought then he had chosen a high road and would walk it to the end, whereas I know now that roads choose us and what they unfold before us is not the person we want to be, but the person we already are, the person time slowly discloses to us. Holloway, Richard (2012-03-01). LeavingContinue reading “Lent 2012 – Day 10 (Friday)”

Lent 2012 – Day 9 (Thursday)

Normally, when I write, I begin by reviewing my previous posts. Especially during this Lenten journey as I attempt to post daily, I’ve been going over all my previous posts this Lent. Something triggers a thought I can write about. But today, this can’t happen. I’m at work with a network that is completely down,Continue reading “Lent 2012 – Day 9 (Thursday)”

Lent 2012 – Day 8 (Wednesday)

I honestly don’t have a lot to write about today. But I avowed that I would try to write daily during Lent 2012, and so write I shall! Saturday, I wrote about the Excel tripod, Prayer/Study/Action. For Lent this year, my study is a book entitled “The Last Week: A Day-by-Day Account of Jesus’s FinalContinue reading “Lent 2012 – Day 8 (Wednesday)”

Lent 2012 – Day 7 (Tuesday)

Today is a “Doctor Day”. It’s one of those days I cram in as many medical appointments as possible so that I can get them all over with at once. Only, it didn’t work. My first visit today was to the dentist. I very much do not like going to the dentist. I very muchContinue reading “Lent 2012 – Day 7 (Tuesday)”

Lent 2012 – Day 6 (Monday)

I awakened this morning with a low grade headache. It’s a headache of the sinus variety, I’m thinking. The kind that makes any degree of higher-level thought unwelcome. It’s the kind of headache that entices me to seek out an “off-the-radar” kind of day. Does that make sense? If I were home today, I’d nap,Continue reading “Lent 2012 – Day 6 (Monday)”

Lent 2012 – Day 5 (1st Sunday in Lent)

Do you know the words to the One Hundred Fifty First Psalm? Of course, there is no 151st Psalm, and yet there are words to it, did you know that? We all know that, during World War II, in those lands conquered by the Nazi regime, the Jewish people were rounded up and sent toContinue reading “Lent 2012 – Day 5 (1st Sunday in Lent)”

Lent 2012 – Day 4 (Saturday)

I woke up this morning thinking about what I wrote last night. I suggested I would take these 40 days to pick up some new spiritual discipline. So my first thoughts other than the rather mundane first thoughts of morning (taking care of “business”, taking care of dogs’ “business”, turning up the heat, getting theContinue reading “Lent 2012 – Day 4 (Saturday)”

Lent 2012 – Day 3 (Friday)

Well it didn’t take long, did it?! I said I’d try to post daily during Lent, and here it is, Day 3, and I almost didn’t make it! As it is, it’ll probably be short. I ended yesterday’s contribution by saying that Lent is modeled after stories in the Bible about periods of probation or preparation suchContinue reading “Lent 2012 – Day 3 (Friday)”

Lent 2012 – Day 2

And so we come to the 2nd day of Lent, 2012. Today, I want to explore VERY briefly the significance of the number of days in Lent. Yesterday, I mentioned that there are 40 days in Lent, that 2 of those days are also part of the liturgical “season” known as the Easter Triduum (threeContinue reading “Lent 2012 – Day 2”

Lent 2012 – A Journey Begins

Welcome, dear ones, to the Liturgical season of Lent, a period of 40 days lasting from now until Easter Sunday. Wait for it. Wait for it. Wait for it! “Wait a minute!” I hear someone exclaim, “Today is February 22, and Easter is on April 8… that’s, what… something like 47 days, not 40!” “Ah,Continue reading “Lent 2012 – A Journey Begins”