Lent

Today is Ash Wednesday, which is the start of Lent which lasts forty days until Easter. I am not checking anyone's blog or music site for Lent, also not using any tobacco products. I have found these things take up a lot of time that I could be using for better purposes. My church wrote that the goal of Lent is not first and foremost about deprivations but more about softening our hearts so that they can be open to the realities of the Spirit and experiencing a secret hunger and thirst for communion with God. That is my goal.