I was recently reflecting over Lent as it is Holy Week and THE END IS NEAR!! I feel that I put forth a valiant. . . ok, maybe not quite valiant. . . I feel I put forth a decent effort. Maybe I could have pushed harder. . . but I definitely did really try. Some days were better than others as far as keeping calm. I think it did get a little easier. We did our Lenten Cross and that went better than I expected. Unfortunately we never got to the Stations of the Cross matching which makes me tremendously sad as I was REALLY looking forward to this. But I got hung up on coloring the pictures to laminate them. This was a bigger project than I realized (and coloring 14 stations twice, NICELY, takes more time than I could find). Likewise, I wanted to pray the Stations of the Cross with my kids, at least on Fridays. I even bought a special book I was so pumped about and have we done it yet? No. It was this final reflection that made me think I should blog about this.
My initial reaction to it all, FAILURE!! But within seconds I realized that exempt from Mortal Sin, failure is not a big deal unless I make it one. Ok, so I did not get the stations matching game made up in Lent. Should I give up and move on? NO!! We can still pray the stations even when it is not Lent!! Every Friday we are to recall the passion and offer special sacrifice. So I ate some sweets once or twice after giving up sweets for Lent, does that mean all of my attempts and sacrifices were for nothing? I would like to think not. What it does is keep me humble and I can tell you I can definitely use a good dose of humility now and again!! So if you are in my boat (feeling a bit like a failure), then lets go wake our sleeping Jesus (Mark 4:35-41) and have him calm the storm so we can smooth sail the rest of this amazing season. And maybe tomorrow I will break out that book and pray the Stations of the Cross with my kiddos. Get up and keep going. When we are weak, he is strong.
Great post. Thanks for the encouragement.
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