Lenten Eve

So, Lent begins tomorrow.

And again I stand on the eve of a 40 day journey carrying a laden load of burdens, ample goals for this space and slight pessimism that I'll once again fall short of what I'd hoped for during this time.

I sit in a place of crossroads, decisions and what seems like endless work and impossibilities. Entering Lent is entering the desert, and thus, my hope is to go and sit in the desert and just be. Let God meet me and show me His will, and show me how to hand over my "closet-full" of junk that I've somehow let pile up.

Therefore I am not making promises or listing all my goals except one: that each day I go to the desert and sit, and wait upon the Lord.

"For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven...a time to seek, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to throw away;...a time to keep silence, and a time to speak" -Ecclesiastes 3:1, 6-7

"Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. He fasted forty days and forty nights..." --Matthew 4:1