Ash Wednesday
Remember that you are dust, and to dust you shall return. Today we enter forty days with Jesus, walking towards Calvary, more mindful of His death and our own. I did not pray to the Holy Spirit to show me what I need to give up this Lent as the Lord has already laid it out for me. My second, third, and forth chemo infusions all fall within Lent, my second being today on Ash Wednesday and my last scheduled for Holy Week. I will give up my appetite, my comfort, sleep, my hair, and more. As I walk with Jesus, I am not giving up my peace. Last weekend in Mass, I was praying for the Lord's guidance about how He wants me to pray this Lent. At the end of Mass, our priest announced that the parish had a Lenten gift for each family - Searching for and Maintaining Peace by Jacques Philippe, a favorite spiritual author of mine. I have read this book before many years ago. It is a 110 page spiritual powerhouse. Jacques Philippe has an incredible gift of conveying profound spiritu...
