For What It's Worth by Erin

A new perspective on LENTEN Fasting. . .

We live in interesting times. All of a sudden, the basic things of our lives are being taken away. Watching the news, it’s all COVID-19, all the time. One simply waits for what will happen next. Ironic that we find all of this happening in Lent...or is it?
 
We need to remember that God’s timing is always perfect. As we find ourselves with a life that is now disrupted, and our original Lenten sacrifices almost seem puny in light of what is being taken from us now.

Our autonomy is gone as we are being told what we can and cannot do. Work, school, living as we know it, continues to be dismantled and changed. We even have had our access to Mass, Eucharist and gathering as Church being stripped away.

But in God’s perfect timing can we find another way? One of our Homebound Ministers told me something beautiful and I’d like to share her suggestion with all of us: “What if every time we hear ‘Coronavirus’ or ‘COVID-19’, we offer up a simple prayer: Praise to you, Lord Jesus Christ!” As she also says, ”It's so easy for me to forget God in all this chaos and this is a good reminder not to forget Who’s in charge.”
 
As we are forced to wait in joyful hope for a return to even Mass and the Eucharist itself, my we remember who is the Giver of everything we have and all we have to be grateful for. Let’s lift up the name of our Lord Jesus Christ as a prayer of praise to the One who is in charge of EVERYTHING. May He hear our prayers and answer us. Amen? AMEN! +