Remember that Lent and Ash Wednesday are not just about putting away the bad things. It is more about creating good things and helping the poor and the needy, being kind to people, and much more.
The world is not God and God is not the world; yet God is the unlimited depth of love, the centre, of all that is, a love that overflows onto new life. God is not a supernatural being hovering above Earth but the suprapersonal whole, the Omega, who exists in all and through all.
An opened heart is boundless; that is, unconditional in its scope. Once we are awakened to love as the lifelong purpose of our hearts, then feeling love for all the world becomes the meaning – the greatest joy – of living.
