‘I restore myself when I’m alone’.
Marilyn Monroe

Lent – not only a time in our journey for preparation, but also a time for restoration.

During some preparation for an essay on transition I came across this quote which really hit me, particularly in my Lenten thoughts:

To become something else you have to stop being what you are now; and to develop a new attitude or outlook, you have to let go of the old one you have now.

ref:William Bridges ‘Transitions’

Before a new beginning, an ending is necessary.

I have been thinking some more on Jesus being the ‘Bread of Life’.

For me bread is not the life sustaining food that it was in the time of Jesus. If I were to think of Jesus in this way he would not be some one who sustained me, but merely someone I encountered at breakfast time … toasted!

For me, Jesus is ‘the oxygen of my life’, the very thing, and the only thing, that not just keeps me going … but gives me life!

Staying with the Irish theme today of St Patrick’s day these words of Elizabeth Bowen have also been a challenge and comfort in the repetitiveness of the desert.

Experience isn’t interesting until it begins to repeat itself. In fact, till it does that, it hardly is experience.