When "they" talk about the "Great Procrastinators", redmatthews will be up there in lights! My last post was quite a while ago, and for anyone who has been salivating for more...well, salivate no more. I totally apologize, but I just could not continue the last post. I tried, but to no avail...the normally obliging letters on the keyboard shreiked in defiance, and, I suspect, in pain. I don't mean to be all light and onomatopeoic about this, but it is my mind you're reading, and thus, you must allow, dear reader, for the ebb and flow of sadness and silliness that the good God gives us to allow heartbreak to be bearable. Enough said.
Lent has overtaken me; I'm obsessed by it. Is this a good thing???? YES, YES, I truly believe it is!! So, what is Lent? It's kind of an inner spring cleaning of Child of God, named in Baptism, Dolores, A.K.A. : Dee, Hon, Mom, Mimi, Sis, Daughter, Aunt, Teacher, Friend... in other words: me and my relationship with God and all those in my life. The word "lent" is taken from a word (Teutonic, Anglo-Saxon, or Old English, depending on what google topic you google) meaning lengthening, as in the hours of light in the day following winter, thus meaning Spring. I take this to mean that Lent gives us more hours to spend with God. (The 40 day meaning came later, when the Church named it the Quadragesimo Fast). So, besides procrastinating, how do I use this extra time with God? How am I dusting off, and becoming "new" again? On the Faith Community level: Our wonderful Catholic Community of St. Francis Xavier organized us in small groups to read and study and discuss a wonderful book about our quest to be holy. Sounds lofty, huh? Well, not really, it is more of a primer in getting back to the basics of being a Catholic Christian. The group in which I am participating is insightful, prolific, and hungering for the cultural resurgence of the values we (as a Church and nation) held dear a life-time ago (when people were happy without being self-medicated with "pleasure" inducements). I am doing other things as well, and doing without some things, but this I will keep between me and my God. The point is I am trying to change the things in my life that keep me from having a closer relationship with God and others. Truth be told, we all have this desire, whether we know it or not...it's innate because: "God made us for Himself, and our hearts will not be at rest, until they rest in Thee." St. Augustine (one of the biggest sinners, and one of the greatest saints in Church History!!)
