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Lydia Rodgers's avatar

I'd love to know which novels drip with grace for you! Would you be willing to share a list? I'd love to read one during this time.

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Evelyn VT's avatar

This was so beautiful, Sarah! I have been struggling a great deal with thinking about Lent, fighting to fast and pray because I started to think it was what I had to do to prove my love for God. But your words opened my eyes to the reality of the season; that it is not about my love for Him, but about His love for me, and my resting in that.

I especially loved this part of the essay: "The disciplines of Lent - prayer, devotion, fasting, stillness - aren’t meant as a heightened performance, an extra extravagance of discipline to prove we’re really Christians. Rather, they are meant to create a quiet space in which we listen afresh for love, ‘accept God’s will’ as we come and remember that we are forgiven."

Thank you so much! I did not know how I much I needed to hear this until I started reading. These are words that I will come back to ten million times as we journey towards Easter.

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