How to remain faithful

The journey of Lent 2012 begins today with Ash Wednesday.  Much to ponder about how to get to Easter fully resurrected with Christ.  The Paschal Mystery is necessary.  I invite you to reflect with me on this holy season of Lent by praying with this poem by Lynn Ungar.

What will you give up for the season

to help life along

in its curious reversals?

As if we had a choice.
As if the world constantly shedding us
like the feathers off a duck's back--
the ground is always littered with our longings.

You can't help but wonder
about all the heroes, the lives sacrified
in the compulsion toward the good.

All those who dropped themselves

upon the earth's hard surface--

Weren't they caught in pure astonishment

in the breath before they shattered?

Forget sacrifice.
Nothing is tied so firmly that the wind

won't tear it from us at last.

The question is how to remain faithful
to all the impossible,

necessary resurrections.

-Lynn Ungar