Shrove Tuesday

The first of the daily Lenten meditations (for Shrove Tuesday) referred to below is up; click here and begin your Lenten cogitatin'. The Lent & Beyond site will have the each day's new meditation and a great many other Lenten resources & prayers as well.

Here's a piece of today's meditation:

As we consider Lent, let’s begin with the assumption that our imaginations are poor things, too stuffed with mashed potatoes to know all that God wants for us. We’re more like children who can only see the repressive and unwanted parental discipline but not the independence, the emotional and intellectual maturity that is the goal. We’re always down among the pigs, and every day begins with the realization that we can trust the Father. We’re a long way from home down a dry and dusty road, but the greeting at the end is beyond our imagination. In Lent, we fast a little, give up a little, for the sake of making room in our imaginations for something greater.