I subscribe to a magazine called The Sun. The April issue was waiting in the mail box when I arrived home. I turned to one of my favorite The Sun features called, Sunbeams. Sunbeams is a page long collection of brief quotes from various authors on the theme of a given month's issue of The Sun. The quote from Charles Caleb Colton caught my eye. I didn't know who Charles Caleb Colton so I searched Wikipedia and learned that Colton was an English cleric, writer and collector, well-known for his eccentricities that lived from 1780 to 1883.
Charles Caleb Colton said, "Men will wrangle for religion; write for it; fight for it; die for it; anything but live for it."
With just nine days of Lent remaining, counting Palm Sunday which isn't really counted as part of Lent, I wonder how I have changed as the result of the last 34 days. Have my efforts of fasting, prayer and almsgiving converted me even a little? When I'm asked on Holy Saturday night to renew my Baptismal promise, will my response be anything more than a convenient - yes.
I'm left wondering, am I doing what it takes to say, yes?
"Even though I walk in the dark valley I feel no evil; for you are at my side." (Ps 23:4ab)