What Matters

Here in northern New England this morning the sun is shining ... and the wind is blowing.  It looks like March is indeed warming up in the wings, ready to blow in like the proverbial lion.  But we still have a couple of days until we get there, so let's focus on the present.  In normal years, the 28th is the last day of February.  Not in 2020.  Once again, we observe Leap Year, the quadrennial day correcting calendar drift.  It's an interesting topic, but it has nothing to do with Lent.

Ah, Lent.  So familiar, yet so strange.  The other day I was asked by my son about Ash Wednesday as it relates to Jesus' life and I responded with a short explanation temptation, the devil, 40 days in the desert, how Sundays don't count.  And God bless him, he still came to the service and wanted to adopt a discipline.  He was focused on what truly matters, on getting right with God.

How about you?  How about me?

Will we get lost in minutiae or will we focus on what matters during Lent.  It's our choice.

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