Lent 2011

I said this morning that Shrove Tuesday always feels like I am standing on a cliff and looking down on Lent. There is a feeling of the unknown in the air - where will God take me this year? Do I really have to climb down in there?

The up and down comparison might not be helpful but Lent is a very real thing for me. The frontals on the altars were being changed to Sarum Lenten Array as we said evening prayer. The transition is both stark and beautiful. Perhaps it is good that I am, again, in a Church which does not use the more familiar purple, reminding me that Lent is a journey into the unknown (this is the generous version...sometimes I feel the ancient Diocese of Salisbury has rather a lot to answer for in its liturgical oddities!).

It is with a mixture of feelings that I find myself looking into this most holy season, excitement, nervousness....and I always remember that old Pontius Puddle cartoon

What if this Lent God isn't just testing??