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"Behold, now is a very acceptable time; behold, now is the day of salvation." (2 Corinthians 6:2) Every Ash Wednesday, we hear these words from St. Paul. They invite us to spend Lent welcoming Jesus into our lives.
They tell us that Lent offers us a unique opportunity to grow in our faith and to experience God’s love more fully. They tell us that God is holding out extra grace for us this season, if we will just accept his invitation.
But how can we take up God’s invitation if we don’t know what this “salvation” is? How can we grow in our faith and deepen our relationship with him if we aren’t clear on what he wants to do in our lives? In a world with so many competing philosophies and ideas about God, it’s easy to get confused. What’s more, in a world that tends to place God in a box, reserving him only for Sunday mornings, it can be easy to lower our expectations and reduce our faith to a matter of church attendance…
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