“Unless I wash you, you will have no inheritance with me.“
We are washed as we join Catholicism at baptism .. washed of the original sin we are born with but as we proceed , we keep sinning every day and every year during Lent we get 40 whole days to rebuild our relationship with God.
Every Lent I abstained from my favorite meals and it would be a herculean task getting through those days and often like I wrote earlier my mom would keep reminding me that being a good person is important..
Unfortunately, this Lent I have been far from God. I have stood up for myself and worked hard at work and forgotten to rebuild my relationship with Jesus through time for prayer. During the Palm sunday service , I suddenly felt this inexplicable anxiety about the same as I am unable to go back to my family to celebrate easter. The sudden fear of being alone with no family took me back to 2020 when I was celebrating easter during covid in my room cause everyone was under lockdown.. and realised my patients will feel the same .. the terrible fear of being alone
Just as Jesus wept in garden of Gethsemane in anxiety of the Cup he would drink, showing how much he loved the father an how he would obey him. I am here in a land with strangers and a language that I barely understand … I surrender myself to the will of God and pray that I can rebuild my broken relationship with God.
Lent is a time to retreat and repent on what is on in our lives and evaluate the relationship I have with Myself and the Lord almighty.
Let us all rethink everyday .. are we ready to drink the cup?
AMEN
