Sunday, my church passed out a book of readings for Lent. Normally, Lent is not something that I "practice" but I took the book because the readings are culled from the writings of C.S. Lewis, who has been one of the most influential authors on my spiritual and creative life. I looked through the first fews days of reading (this past Wednesday was the first day of Lent) and sure enough, one of the quotes popped out as as pertinent to my current life.
"The principle runs through all life from top to bottom. Give up yourself, and you will find your real self. Lose your life and you will save it. Submit to death, death of your ambitions and favorite wishes every day and death of your whole body in the end: submit with every fiber of your being, and you will find eternal life. Keep back nothing. Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours. Nothing in you that has not died will ever be raised from the dead. Look for yourself, and you will find in the long run only hatred, loneliness, despair, rage, ruin, and decay. But look for Christ and you will find Him, and with Him everything else thrown in."
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I'm glad your church is recognizing Lent, without making it a bigger deal than Easter. But. Are there also Scripture readings in the booklet?
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