bent on lent
“I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse. Choose life.” —Deuteronomy 30:19
On this second day of Lent, the Church challenges us to choose life, Lent, and salvation. If we don’t want Lent, we can easily ignore it. If we don’t want life and salvation, we can refuse them. We can either lose our life but gain everlasting life, or gain the whole world and lose our soul (Lk 9:24-25). The choice is ours, whether or not we want to choose. Many Christians don’t reject Lent but don’t accept it either. They’re neither hot nor cold about Lent, but lukewarm (Rv 3:16).