Thomas Merton Lent Quote Light
Lent is not just a time for squaring conscious accounts: but for realizing what we had perhaps not seen before. The light of Lent is given us to help us with this realization.
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Lent is not just a time for squaring conscious accounts: but for realizing what we had perhaps not seen before. The light of Lent is given us to help us with this realization.
Give something, however small, to the one in need. For it is not small to one who has nothing. Neither is it small to God, if we have given what we could.
Lent is a call to renew a commitment grown dull, perhaps, by a life more marked by routine than by reflection.
For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.—Matthew 7:2 (NIV)
What if we view this desert time of Lent as not just a time to reflect or to lament or to confess or to fast, but a time where we learn to be free.
Fasting confirms our utter dependence upon God by finding in Him a source of sustenance beyond food.
Lent is the autumn of the spiritual life during which we gather fruit to keep us going for the rest of the year.
I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full.—John 10:10 (NIV)
If the invitation of Lent is to practice abstaining from something to focus more fully on who God is and how God is at work in the world, then I need to fast from my dependence on criticism.
Each year, around the latter part of winter, Lent arrives. It nearly always surprises me. Here it is, once again, summoning me to change how I typically live.
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