Giving up fear for Lent
Giving up fear for Lent ... Len t is also traditionally a season of deprivation, the letting go or giving up of a comfort or habit or food or practice that hinders a person’s reliance on god—the sacrifice meant to create space and to invite a deeper level of faith, by replacing that which has become a cushion or a crutch or an unhealthy fixation. That being the case, I’m trying to give up fear for Lent. I am trying to remove it from my daily diet. I am trying desperately to say “no” to fear: No, to engaging so many of the manufactured, inconsequential wars of words that distract me from the greater work of loving people, of encouraging them, of seeing them—the work of compassion to which I am called. The world already has enough followers of Jesus who have declared war on so much of it. ... Click here for the entire article https://johnpavlovitz.com/2020/03/09/im-giving-up-fear-for-lent/
