Conversion is to Welcome In

What is Lent all about?

Is it just another time to give up food and try to lose weight?

 

It may be for us a time to

Convert

and Welcome in.
 

A time to get rid of the bad stuff

and to welcome in the good stuff.
 

For each person that maybe different

and we alone, by going apart to the desert,

can decide to tend  one good flower

and bring it to bloom for Easter.
 

No big project but responding

and welcoming in

the daily round of events and people.

It may seem simple
 but in fact it is the daily stuff

which makes us or breaks us.
 If wewelcome it in
with all its mess

we have spent our Lent well.

 

For Saint Francis Penance was MERCY, 

 being kind to the lepers,

 to the brothers

and to the Lay Folk. 

 

"Be compassionate as your heavenly Father
 is compassionate."

so says the Gospel

 

Saint Clare tells us,
 

"That we should be,
by our manner of living, a model and mirror

not only for all the faithful,
but for our own Sisters also,
whom the Lord called to follow our vocation."

 

Or as the saying goes.

"Charity begins at Home."