Well, I am sitting here on the Tuesday before Ash Wednesday. In general I feel alive -- very alive. For me, a cross country skier, it has been a fabulous winter. My sight feels keen, my body feels activated and my heart feels full.
And yet, I know that (as always) God is calling me out of myself to walk with Christ along the path to the Cross -- beginning tomorrow.
So I will take stock of how I am this Tuesday before Ash Wednesday, and I invite my readers to do the same. In the days ahead I have chosen to read and pray with Richard Rohr's "Wondrous Encounters", so many of my reflections will relate to those readings. You may or may not want to purchase the devotional.
I want to pay attention to how I am before Lent, before Holy Week and Easter 2014. I want to pay attention to the subtle movements of the next 40 days. And I expect that there will be transformation. And I want to live from that transformation beginning Easter Monday, 2014.
However I am today, I want God to work with it. I know that God has much more in mind than what is there today. But lest I forget, I will record in privacy how I am today -- my physical condition, the way I think, my dominant emotions, and how I see myself as a child of God.
Tomorrow, let the path begin.
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