Lent

No one that lives in the house is Catholic but we all believe that sin rips us apart from God and rips us apart from community. In response we are mourning our sin for this season. Mourning sin involves different things for everyone and who am I to tell anyone what it should look like. Everyone in the house is giving up things that hold us back and trying to add things into our lives that will hopefully heal some of the pain; we are giving up things like excessive spending of money, oversleeping, romantic pursuits, etc. We're also adding things like prayer and study time. I don't know how this will go for us over the next 40 days but I hope everyone has a good 40 days and that they come closer to understanding how much sin damages us and how much grace God has to give us in return. I hope that we find how much grace can heal and overcome.

John 1:15-17 (esv)

John bore witness about him, and cried out, "This was he of whom I said, 'He who comes after me ranks before me, because he was before me.'" And from his fullness we have all received, grace upon grace. For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.