I’m giving up alcohol. No – the doctors have not told me too. I’ve not been done for drink-driving. The liver is fine thanks, I’m dinking well under the recommended limit. I’m giving it up for Lent. That 40+ day run up to Good Friday and Easter. That traditional time when Christian people either give up something, or do something extra. Or both. To enter into this period of drama more personally. Now there are 40 days to go to Cross.
There are several layers to Lent.
Firstly, the chance to identify with the murder of God. God comes to Earth to show himself in a more accessible form. Earthlings are largely deeply disturbed by what they see, and he is killed. Judicial murder, on a cross. (more…)