From Awareness to Practice

How Lent Becomes Training for the Soul

We have spent this week naming something.

We have named the center.

We have named how easily it shifts.

We have named Godzilla.

We have named the systems that provoke him.

Now comes the harder part.

Practice.

It is one thing to recognize that our interior lives are being destabilized.

It is another thing entirely to retrain them.

Lent has always been about this.

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