Orienting Ourselves to the Desert -Spiritual Spring Cleaning
I don't have a catholic bone in my body. I am not certain I have even been to Mass. However, as I have grown spiritually I have discovered divine gems of spiritual pathway that line the Catholic traditions. Lent is one of them . It is defines a sacred time of readying... clearing space for God's dwelling . Something feels strong and right-making in the allocation of days purposed for spiritual "spring cleaning". I am so thankful that God knows we are a people that need to be interrupted . Our routine, obligations, mundane, the centripetal forcing us to the outside edges for the sake of productivity. They all just go on and on unless we throw an intentional monkey wrench into them. That is what Lent is . A merciful monkey wrench into our time . An invitation to pay attention to what is unseen. This is the invitation offered by Henri Nouwen: "We have to fashion our own desert where we can withdraw every day, shake off our compulsions