Lent is approaching.....

Maybe its a wake-up call. I always like the arrival of Lent...especially when it is early in the year...and the idea that Lent should be more about "doing more for others" rather than "giving something up" seems very nice. Wonder if that is what the Obama Administration is thinking as they presume that the best thing for the USA and the world is a whole lot of government spending...anyway, I hope everyone is looking forward to the beginning of Lent and has chosen some great ways to be mindful of the season. One thing I am going to try to do on a daily basis throughout Lent is to write a note to someone who I haven't heard from in awhile...and I am going to try to write the note and mail it...hopefully with some sort of grace-filled message...wish me luck. Our church also sent home some great ideas in the bulletin this week...one I can't wait to check out is a website called www.freerice.com that supposedly has a game you can play to help feed the hungry. So, yesterday I went to a party and found this neat poem on the wall in one of the rooms at the house where the party was. The poem was called the Desiderata and it said "From the Old St. Paul's Church, Baltimore, Maryland 1692" I thought it was so cool that I sent myself a text so I could Google it later...well, to my surprise, there is a bit of history to the poem. Hit the link and see what you think...you never know what you don't know!