Lent begins

The public library has supplied me with some lovely books for my Lenten reflections, and today I am sitting with the book Spring: A Spiritual Biography of the Season.

"Spring is the season that simultaneously calls us to celebration and to a sober sense of gratitude for the time that we have been given. The grace of renewal should lead to gratitude for the newness, and it should lead to an acute awareness of our need for renewal."