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A Slip of the Tongue

Lent begins today: Ash Wednesday

March 9, 2011 by Tom Grosh IV Leave a Comment

What cannot be admitted -- what must exist only as an undefeated but daily resisted enemy -- is the idea of something that is 'our own', some area in which we are to be 'out of school', on which God has no claim. ... I do not think any efforts of my own will can end once and for all this craving for limited liabilities, this fatal reservation.   Only God can.   I have good faith and hope He will.   Of course, I don't mean that I can therefore, as they say, 'sit back'.   What God does for us, He does in us.   The process … [Read more...] about Lent begins today: Ash Wednesday

Filed Under: Christ and the Academy, Resources for ESN Members Tagged With: A Slip of the Tongue, Ash Wednesday, C. S. Lewis, Christine Sine, Godspace, lent, Prayer, The Business of Heaven

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