Lent 2026 #1: How Does God Love?
It was not immediately obvious what to do for Lent this year. It took some time to discern the particular direction God desires for me to go. For my prayer commitment, I decided to return to a particular practice of meditating on the daily readings for 10 minutes a day. This time, I am focused specifically on discerning how God loves, within the context of each reading, as I continue my journey to learn to love as He does. If you'd like to learn more about the readings that I am following, please see the footnote at the end of this post. Wednesday's gospel reading, Ash Wednesday, was from Matthew 6:1-6, 16-18. For now, I will focus only on verses 1-4, from the NRSVCE version: "Beware of practicing your piety before others in order to be seen by them; for then you have no reward from your Father in heaven. So whenever you give alms, do not sound a trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, so that they may be praised by others. Truly I ...
