Lenten Journey

Lenten Journey

In this week’s Gospel, our Lord goes into the desert for forty days. While he literally went into a desert, the desert can be a metaphor for this period in our lives as we try to realign our lives to the way God wants us to live. The desert. What does that mean to you? Could it be silence? Could it be the stripping away of everything that separates you from God? Where do you go to rest, to pray, to center yourself?

And our Lord was tempted. It is comforting to see the human side of our Lord and to know that he faced some of the things that we ourselves have faced. But Satan faced the incarnate God. He should have known better. We, through our fasting and abstinence of this season and through the purification and enlightenment of our journey, should gain in fortitude through our desert experience to show the evil one to whom we belong.  What is one way that you can shut out the noise of the world and join in the desert experience of Jesus?