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What’s Our Plan?

February 6, 2008 |

Ash Wednesday is the last chance to develop our Lenten Plan.  So do we have a plan?

For me, Lent is a time to try to repent, reflect, purify and renew.  Like others I make a plan.  And like others, I usually end up deviating from the plan or forgetting about it altogether.

This year, I resolve to do differently.  I have my plan and I intend to keep it.  It’s nothing too ambitious.  It’s a modest plan that will still bring me closer to Christ and help me live a better life.

So, I challenge you to develop your own plan (if you haven’t done so already).  Focus on the Lenten areas of charity, penance and prayer.  Have a plan that has enough meat in it (pardon the pun) to make you a better Christian but is also modest enough that you can keep the plan for the next forty days.

Try to find an area of your life that needs to be improved, eliminated or changed.  Read something new and different.  Give of your time and money.  Intensify your prayer life.  Just simply be a better person.  Go to confession.  Fast today and on Good Friday, and abstain on the other Fridays, not because you feel you have to, but because you want to do so in order to purify your soul and show God that you are truly sorry for the times you have gone astray.

Lent doesn’t have to be hard.  In fact, it can be a time of joy - if we take this time as a way to grow closer to our Lord. 

But it all starts with a plan.  Do you have your’s?


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