Lent Fever

The first time I participated in Lent was in 2012, at the peak of my party years. I'm not sure what came over me but I woke up each day and wrote a motivational open letter for 40 days.

It started small and by the time we were near the end, there was a wee cult following waking up to read posts before their day begun! 

Call it nostalgia but here we are again! 

The start of Lent is called Ash Wednesday. Priests all over the world have held services today and placed ash on the foreheads of their congregrations. It turns out anyone could visit an Anglican church in UK and be part of this ancient ritual.

Lent, like Ramadan, is a time of reflection. In this 40 day period one is meant to "repent and remember". In my book, I talk about the word "sin" and my belief that it's not how we've been taught. 

When we strip back all the years of and projection and political motives imposed on faiths, one understands that "to sin" means "to go against one's intuition".

So this holy season is about connecting with your inner light (in the Christian faith, this consciousness is represented by Jesus) and making peace with life and yourself by letting go of past hurts and listening to your intuition. 

Whatever you believe in, this is a great time to join many cultures around the world in reflection, repenting, remembering and restoring.

And you have 100% agency in deciding how you do it!

A poem for you below 

"Ash Wednesday: Blessing the Dust" by Jan Richardson

So let us be marked

not for sorrow.

And let us be marked

not for shame.

Let us be marked

not for false humility

or for thinking

we are less

than we are

but for claiming

what 'Divine Love' can do

within the dust,

within the dirt,

within the stuff

of which the world

is made

and the stars that blaze

in our bones,

and the galaxies that spiral

inside the smudge

we bear.