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the start of Lent
Today is the 4th day of the 10th week, the 6th day of the 3rd month, the 65th day of 2019, and:
- Alamo Day
- Ash Wednesday
- Day of The Dude - the first annual sacred Dudeist high holy day was celebrated in 2010
- Dentist's Day
- Discover What Your Name Means Day
- National Dress Day ((but I think a lot of great stories started with jeans))
- National Frozen Food Day
- National Oreo Cookie Day -- Oreos were created by Nabisco and first sold on this day in 1912 by grocer S.C. Thuesen in Hoboken, New Jersey
- National White Chocolate Cheesecake Day
- Peace Corps Day (Historical 3/1/1961 by Pres. Kennedy, but actually observed on the First Tuesday of March)
- Sofia Kovalevskaya Math Day
- Stop Bad Service Day
Quote of the day:
"The process of forgiveness demands courage and a continual remembering of where our deepest happiness lies."
—Sharon Salzberg, “Three Ways to Practice Forgiveness”
Today is Ash Wednesday, the first day of Lent. The next six weeks [or 40 days in memory of Jesus’ time alone in the desert], right up until Holy Thursday, is supposed to be a time of spiritual reflection and preparation for Christians as they prepare for the annual observance of the crucifixion and resurrection of the Savior. This is the culmination of the liturgical year and was the highlight of the year in days of yore, even though Christmas and New Year’s Day seems to be more important in these modern times. One of the things stressed during this period is penance – widely known as the sacrament of penance or confession with a priest by Roman Catholics – as part of Lenten reflections. Identifying what you are sorry for, acknowledging your faults, your shortcomings, your sins is only the first step in the process. Then you have to feel remorse and regret, vowing to do better in the future and making reparations if that is possible. But then you have to seek forgiveness, and that can be a bit more problematic. You cannot always go back in time and apologize to someone for an unkindness for there are some words and/or actions that cannot be taken back or erased. The injured party might never forgive or forget what you have or haven’t done, what you did or didn’t say. You can pray for forgiveness from the Lord, but it is hard to know if that petition has been granted. Here the Catholics have a bit of relief, as they perform the penance imposed by the priest after hearing their confession, they believe they have re-entered a state of grace.
Where I am going with this is the thought about forgiving yourself instead of flagellating yourself over all of your deficiencies. I fear this can be taken to an extreme where you are so accepting of your own folly that you are refusing accountability for your actions, but what I have observed [both in myself and in others] is this feeling of despair where you fall into the feeling that your faults are irredeemable. It seems to me that one needs to be able to forgive oneself at times – not to lower your expectations of yourself although perhaps you need to do a reality check, but just be a little kinder to yourself. You are human, you are going to make mistakes, you are frail at times. Those aren’t excuses, they are facts. You need to strive to do the best that you can and if you fall short, get up and try again without beating yourself up.
The quote today just reminded me that sometimes courage is just squaring your shoulders and sallying forth to face another day, refusing to give in to despair. Even as you labor to repair your shortcomings, give yourself a beak now and then, and remember to forgive yourself as well as others.
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