Pancakes?

Oh dear....we have got to Ash Wednesday again. It has this year sort of crept up on me.
Using the Timehop App on my iPad I have been reading old accounts. I have spent the first day of Lent in several different places around the world.
My favourite was a very beautiful wooden church in New Zealand. But we were often at sea so then I did a communion for us both in our cabin.
Keeping a "good Lent" used to be important to me but this year I am finding it less relevant to my life as a retired priest.
I won’t be changing my eating habits. I already have difficulty eating enough to keep a sparrow alive.
It’s hard to think of anything relevant to the season that I’m not already doing...
My solitary life is already quiet if not actually holy.
But I will try.
I always told people in church that it’s better to take on something new that helps people rather than give up things....
My dear husband David always went on diets, usually giving up chocolate or biscuits.
It worked for him in that he always got into the smaller trousers on Easter Day.
Explaining to his sons why his suits had two pairs of trousers was related both to cruising and to Lent was not easy after he died. Their faces betrayed both scepticism and disbelief.
Now on my own I shall not be going to church. I can keep a good Lent here on my own...remembering as well as praying. Amen.


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