An Indian Journey through Lent, Day 8
At the beginning of the second week of Lent it might be just as well to reassess where this Indian Journey through the season is taking me. I wrote in yesterday’s entry that my greatest discipline at the moment is in learning Hindi. That is not a Lenten discipline. At best I could argue that it is a “work of love” in the fourfold “Disciplines of Lent’ proposed by The Rev. Thomas L. Weitzel of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America: Repentance, Prayer, Fasting & Abstinence and Works of Love. Each is a spiritual practice in which we can be assisted by various practical activities.
Repentance is generally seen as turning away from our sinful, selfish way of life. However, I prefer to see it more positively, as turning Godward. Doing that is as simple and decisive as a decision and a prayer to that effect, and as ongoing as a daily fighting off the temptations to wrongdoing that each day brings; a “dying to self” and “rising to Christ”.
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