Lent...It's about to begin!!!!

Lent is about to begin and I am faced with the struggle that I faced last year...sticking to a new spiritual practice or some other program.  At my field education parish I have been working on a 5-week series based on the Restoration Project Movement.  Their Lenten challenge is 20/1/4; 20 minutes of prayer a day, 1 hour of worship a week, and 4 hours of community service a week. We will also be reading their book on the movement that is intended to bring about a deeper relationship with God through Jesus.  So we will be reflecting upon our own personal experiences with the Lenten Challenge as well as reflect upon the readings from the book.  While this should be a great series to engage with and further the formation into better discipleship for both myself and the parish, but we only meet once a week so it lacks that daily element that I am looking for.  That is why I will also participate in the program offered by the Society of St. John the Evangelist, an Episcopal/Anglican monastic community that I am affiliated with and is located in Cambridge, MA.  For Lent they have produced a series of videos and questions that will be sent out daily.  They hope that individuals and groups will watch the videos, answer the questions and then share their answer via social media, using the hashtag #LoveLife.  I am going to challenge myself to engage in this daily program and share my answers via Facebook and here, but I will also post a reflection upon the question and my response.  Hopefully I can see this through for forty days.  Wish me luck.

It is in moments like this I think of Cartman and his lack of discipline.  Time for pancakes!