Moonstruck in Jersey's Blog

When I started blogging, I mentioned that once in a while I might go in another direction and voice an opinion or two.  I am now stepping onto the soap box for just a few paragraphs.

I am a non practicing Catholic and there are many reasons for this, way too many to discuss here, but Wednesday is Ash Wednesday and the Pope, who is very hard line, is resigning at the end of the month and it got me thinking about a quick conversation I had a few days ago.

I commented to someone about Wednesday being Ash Wednesday and I asked what they were doing for Lent as the tradition is to give up something that you wouldn’t want to live without.  I thought that perhaps it would be a good idea to do something positive, but I was reminded that the whole idea was that you should suffer.  I am 60 years young and apparently, nothing has changed in that time.

Why do we continue to crucify Christ?  Wasn’t once enough?  I think we should remember what He did for us and remember what He directed – love one another as I have loved you.

If you want to suffer and offer that suffering up, then you should try to love someone you don’t like or God forbid, hate.  Try being kind to someone you would not give the time of day to.  It is so hard to have only positive things come out of your mouth!  Do it for forty days, it will be so difficult that you will suffer, but maybe we will also learn and at the end of that time perhaps we all won’t be so nasty to each other.  Maybe, just maybe, we could learn that we are ALL EQUAL in the eyes of God who created us in His image and no one, not one single one of us, has the right to judge another person.

If we are busy trying to do what Jesus would do in our own lives, we couldn’t possibly have time to try to control someone else’s life.  It is so difficult, but we have to keep trying and I invite you to join me.  If we all give it our best shot everyday who knows what could happen, right?

Peace