Ash Wednesday

Before Lent,

Everyone tries to figure out what they should give up. 

Or what more they can do. 

But before one can make this decision,

One must ask oneself,

What will make me a better Christian?

This is what we must we must ask ourselves BEFORE we choose our Lenten Penance.

Will giving up certain food really make me a better Christian?

Then we must ask ourselves,

Will it endure past Easter?

For what is the point of striving to become a better Christian,

If we go back to our old ways after Easter?

Then everything we will have done during Lent

Will have been in vain.

Maybe the best Lenten resolution we can make. 

Is to resolve to ask ourselves every day of Lent 

What will make me a better 

Christian today?

And then do it!

And every day strive 

To be la little more like Christ

And by being more like Christ

We and the world in which we live will be transformed.