TREE BARK AND FRIED WORMS

In four weeks we will start Lent.  Ash Wed. is on Feb. 29th.  Time for "sack cloth and ashes."  We will all be eating tree bark and fried worms for 40 days...well maybe not.  It will be a time for refelctions, personel penence and fasting.  Anyone over 65 or with health issues will not be required to forego proper nutrition, but I think we could all give up some little goodie that we indulge in.  For me, will probably be staying away from fast food places and yummy places that I could and should live without.  That would be a penance for me: not going to The Golden Corral or the Seafood places.  Mostly...and I am thinking about it, I will try to do something of value or good.  Generally, what you do or don't do, is a private, personal commitment between you and God.  I find that if I commit myself verbally or on paper, or even here, on the internet, I will be more faithful to the impostion of the penance that I place upon myself.  Thus, I am thinking about it now rather than four weeks from now.

It may sound like I am being a bit of a Pharasee by indicating a "look at me" inference, but in the final end of the Lenten Season-40 days of prayer, fasting, and penance, only God and I will know if I have or have not, been true to the endeaver of a closer relationship with Jesus Christ, Our Lord.  So, don't look at me.  Look at yourself instead.  Any Christian can partake the spiritaul practices of Lent.  Other major religions also have their own rites and sevices that emulate the season of repentence...or we do we emulate them in many ways?

So...we have about four weeks to consider what we will achieve in the Lenten season.  I have began my quest for decernment for what would please the Lord.

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What? Know you not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which you have of God, and you are not your own?  For you are brought for a price; therefore glorify God, in your body and in your spirit, which are God's.

1 Cor. 6: 19-20

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I went out shopping today as the day came off bright and beautiful.  I was looking for a new, lightweight jacket as my present jacket is taped together with...yes, you guessed it, white duct tape.  No one sees it, but I know it is there.  Unfortunatly the area of DT repairs is getting larger and rendering-wearing through.  It is too bad because I really liked the jacket.  I didn't find a jacket that suited me or they was were just too expensive.  I am hoping for a sale.  In four weeks I may be eating tree bark and fried worms, but money doesn't grow on trees!

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