The pancake mix is back on the shelf. For that matter, so are the chocolates and chips.
Today is the first day of Lent, for many a time of prayer, almsgiving and penance in preparation for Easter.
Read what C. S.Lewis has to say about self-denial. His message is both philosophical and poetic.
"There is in our present pilgrim condition plenty of room (more room than most of us like) for abstinence and renunciation and mortifying natural desires. But behind all the asceticism the thought should be,
'Who will trust us with true wealth if we cannot be trusted even with the wealth that perishes?'
Who will trust me with a spiritual body if I cannot control even an earthly body?
These small and perishable bodies we now have were given to us as ponies are given to schoolboys. We must learn to manage: not that we may some day be free of horses altogether but that some day we may ride bare-back, confident and rejoicing, those greater mounts, those winged, shining and world shaking horses which perhaps even now expect us with impatience, pawing and snorting in the King's stables."
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