When I started this collection of thoughts during Lent in 2015, I would never in my wildest imaginings have thought I would be sitting here in Malaysia 3 years later. When I started I wanted to use this as a way to capture meandering thoughts that might help me identify a pathway to what next.
In 2018 while the path has taken many twists and turns I am coming to another point of what next. And it seems appropriate somehow that I am surrounded by the colour and energy of Chinese New Year with its focus on good fortune and family.
Today is Ash Wednesday – I decided to fast and made a somewhat half hearted attempt to find a Mass I could get to easily (reference back to the crazy traffic of Chinese New Year) I have found a couple of Lenten reflection books and interestingly enough the first reflection in each of them connected strongly with some of my thinking this week.
In The Art of Lent the picture and reflection is of giant wave and the lack of control we can have over the events of our lives. The picture is Japanese with the Asian quality appealing to my feeling of needing to ground here in this place.
The second book Holy Solitude picks up on the idea of living with simplicity and taking meaningful small actions.
And the difference between thinking and action was triggered by checking out Sacraparental’s blog posts about Whats the Point of Lent
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