The season of the wilderness
Kinesis has a good post today about the reality of living in the wilderness. Lent is often talked about as “wilderness experience”, but we often take this too lightly, thinking in terms of a little hardship or deprivation being “good for the soul”. The reality of wilderness, though, is danger, poverty, loneliness. We are thrown onto our own resources, removed from our ability to lean on other people. In that experience, the Lenten idea is that we learn to lean on God instead, that we learn about our own limits as well as about our real character.
For most of us, I suspect, and certainly for myself, I cannot take 40 days out for a real Lenten wilderness, but I hope that we can all find some time this Lent for aloneness, solitude and perhaps just a little spiritual hardship.
pax et bonum
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