Bearing Fruit

From childhood we have been taught that Lent is a time for fearless moral inventory… for auditing our shortcomings… for recognizing our need for repentance… and for recharging our spiritual batteries. Without a truly loving and forgiving God, what a wretched time this would be. It can feel like our list of failings just never gets shorter. We seem to be making the same dumb mistakes, over and over. As Yogi Berra would say: “It’s deja-vu all over again.”
But Lent was never meant to be a season of repeatedly wallowing in passed mistakes. Rather it’s spring cleaning time… a time to clear the decks… a time to prepare to reconnect with the risen Christ. That means recognizing and packing-up our sins for Christ to collect them and take them to the cross for our forgiveness.