Lent is ……
 

·       A time to struggle with our selfishness

·       A time to struggle with our lack-lustre performance on many fronts, a time to improve

·       A time to struggle with insensitivity in our dealings with family, with co-workers, with friends

·       A time to struggle with attitudes that are negative

·       A time to struggle against our compulsions – to eat too much, to smoke, to waste time, to talk too much, to talk too little

·       A time to struggle with things that knock us off the path of friendship with God

·       A time to struggle to lift our life-act onto a new level

·       A time for new agendas and good resolutions

Jesus struggled.  An inner struggle, inner turmoil, inner distress.  The kind of struggle that drives people mad. Or the kind of struggle that makes saints.

(An Tobar Volume 2, Issue 3)