Website design By BotEap.comSpring is springing up here in the Pacific Northwest, the plants and trees are blooming. We are fast approaching the Christian celebration of Easter Sunday, and if my Catholic is right, we should be in Lent right now.

Website design By BotEap.comLent is a Catholic season of soul searching and repentance. Lent is a time to reflect and take a hard look at what our lives are all about. By observing the forty days of Lent, the individual Catholic imitates Jesus’ retreat into the desert for forty days. This would explain the “Give Up Something for Lent” gesture.

Website design By BotEap.comI was a Catholic growing up in New York City, back then giving something up for Lent which started forty days before Easter Sunday, started on Ash Wednesday (which is another story in itself) I tried my best to give I invented something that I really liked, something like RC Cola. It never worked out and mostly because I didn’t understand why I was giving something up.

Website design By BotEap.comToday I understand it and somehow twisted the symbolic gesture of giving up something we like between the days of the passion and resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ seems to me a good idea since our Heavenly Father gave His only begotten Son for our sins on the lo The least we can do is take a break from Starbucks Lattes or something.

Website design By BotEap.comWell, I don’t think I’ll be going back to my Catholic roots anytime soon, but I can add a little thought to this season by bringing the Gospel to someone in need. We have a duty to our Lord that since we have been given this wonderful eternal life, we share that love with others.

Website design By BotEap.comThe most remarkable aspect of Lent is that it actually commemorates the time that Jesus was in the desert. It was at that moment that the temptations occurred and Jesus withstood the Devil’s confrontation. You and I will never be tempted by the Devil; however, we will be tempted by Satan as Eve was in the Garden, but never directly by the Devil as Jesus was. What a tremendous example for us, how much He loved the Father and would always do his will.

Website design By BotEap.comSo, as the foliage returns to the Pacific Northwest and to your hometown, as spring begins, we have the wonderful privilege of knowing God and His Son Jesus Christ and His matchless Word.