Lent is a reminder that our relationship with God is one built not simply on faith but acts of spiritual discipline done to grow closer in the knowledge and love of God. We take on these disciplines not out of guilt or spiritual anxiety, but out of love. Our small acts of surrender train our hearts for larger acts of mercy. We do not store things up for ourselves, but in the sacrificial act of releasing those things which we are clinging too, we discover the true treasure that neither moth nor rust can destroy: a life rooted in the self-giving love of God. And you can’t buy that off the wall or off the rack.
