Lent: Beginning Again With God

Lent: Beginning Again with God

What keeps us from asking God for everything our hearts truly long for? Fear, disappointment, or the quiet belief that God might not really come through for us? Lent gently invites us to risk trusting again and ask God not for less, but for more: more freedom, more healing, more love, more life.

Words to Awaken Us

The words spoken over us on Ash Wednesday: “Remember that you are dust, and to dust you shall return” — are not meant to discourage us, but to awaken us. They remind us of our need for God and of His deep desire to renew our hearts. As the prophet Joel urges, God asks us to “rend our hearts, not our garments,” to come back to Him honestly, just as we are. Psalm 51 becomes our prayer: “Create in me a clean heart, O God.”

Turning Towards God and Letting His Love Transform Us

Jesus reminds us that prayer, fasting, and almsgiving are not meant to prove willpower, but to foster intimate encounters with the Father who sees in secret. These practices make room for grace to gently transform what is wounded, weary, or closed within us. Lent is not about trying harder; it is about slowing down to towards God, revealing to Him what's on our hearts and recognizing that we can't carry the weight of life alone. It's about letting Him in and letting His love transform us.

This Lent, what would truly change your life if God touched it? What might happen if you dared to ask Him?

M. Kyrou