Happy VaLENTine's!

This year, Ash Wednesday and Valentine’s Day coincide: a day about joy, love, and celebration alongside a day about sacrifice, remembering our mortality, and recalling our utter dependence on God.

At first glance, this seems paradoxical. But it may just be the perfect way to enter Lent, remembering God is the one love that was here at the beginning of my life and will be here long after its inevitable end.

Let’s remember to invite God in for the joys as well as the sorrows, the excitements as well as the frustrations, and the healthy moments as well as the sick ones.

Gretchen Crowder, ignatianspirituality.com