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