As Lent approaches, perhaps we could consider a different kind of penance, than what most traditionally think of. Perhaps we could pray for the grace to understand, accept and love what is within us. That may be the true meaning of conversion.
This might involve asking for forgiveness - for rejecting what we have found inside ourselves - from God and others, and even from ourselves.
For sure, we are aware of a few things - or more - that we need to repent of, things we keep going back to though we know that they do not contribute to our being our best selves. Maybe those sins flow from the rejection of the wounds and the limitations we all have within us. Perhaps we are trying to fill the emptiness within with something that cannot fill it.
Prepare the way!
I know - that's the cry of Advent.
Perhaps in Lent we can listen to this cry as: "Prepare the way of the cross. Prepare the way of bearing the burden that is myself - a burden that Christ in his mercy makes lighter and easier.
Now is the moment. This day there is salvation - in acceptance of the sinner, and healing for the sin.
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