from Deacon Greg Kolbinger
Here are the readings for this weekend.
As Jesus is about to experience his 40 days in the desert and his time of hunger and thirst due to fasting, it brings to mind our hunger for someone to listen to our problems, our longing for company, someone that will try and understand all of us.
So often in our crazy & mistaken belief we can multitask our way through the day, we miss the people we love and those we encounter without really seeing their hunger, their needs for love, their need for a listening ear; we are so easily distracted from what really matters.
This Lent, I am trying to fast more from the computer, the TV, and the cell phone, to really pay more attention to the one who God places in my life today—to listen, with my eyes on them, so that they see how important they are, both to me and to the Father.
We always talk about doing something for lent, I would have you look intently at all the little and big spiritual challenges right in front of you today that call you to be present to a deeper spiritual reality.
Feed that hunger and need in the one right in front of you today and for the next 40 days. Give them your full attention. Listen to them with your gaze firmly on them. Listen to each other from your hearts.