Hey, is anyone else losing steam with this Lent thing? Who is tempted to start doing everything they gave up and skip right to Easter? Me a little bit, at least until I take a step back and look at what Lent is meant to do for us.
Lent is a preparation; a preparation to get our our hearts and minds ready for when Jesus dies and rises. While it happens every year, each time we can enter in a deeper understanding of Jesus and ourselves and how those two fit together. Easter just wouldn’t mean as much without these preparations. It would just seem to come and go without us gaining all we could because we simply weren’t ready.
I have seen these types of situations occur in my life. Sometimes I’m impatient and want things to just get here already. How often have we missed out on enjoying the week before break because we are all so focused on getting home? But the journey there makes the end result worthwhile and it great in its own right.
So on this day of Lent, I will take a step back and try to remember that this Lenten path is just as fruitful as Easter, and will make the holiday even better. I challenge you to look at your Lent in this way as well.
-Lauren G. - Class of 2013
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