Well, I gave the ERD Lent Meditation a try and just couldn't do it. The scripture was so sparse that I couldn't get my teeth into it at all. Just a few lttle words hangng out there with no context at all whatsoever. And I just could NOT get past the pasty faced, middle class people in the illustration-cartoony things. Even brought down my gel pens and gave them blue kinky hair and orange skin and bushy eyebrows and heavy mustaches. Didn't help. Not one bit. And the ERD message was alright but not 'Lenty.' Whatever that means.
So I am forging ahead on my own. Still reading the Old Testament and the Gospel reading appointed for each day. Still trying to keep myself in prayer. Not spending money by going out for dinners or even ordering in -- although we never do the latter anyway. AND, I am keeping to my own personal Lent discipline. It is hard but it is making for a better relationship here. I promise to let y'all know how I fair come Easter.
Soup Suppers continue at church on Wednesday evenings and Saul Hoffman is going to be talking about Wisdom Literature for the next four Wednesdays. That should be really good. Last Lent he did the prophets of the Old Testament. Not ALL of them, just some of them. My contribution will be chicken noodle soup that I have been doing in stages since Sunday night.
And so Lent moves along. Not with as much religiosity as I had intended. But, hey, I'm still hanging in there with scripture and prayer and my own brand of fast and a new discipline. So I'm not doing too badly. I might even be doing well.
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