{"id":18058,"date":"2025-04-23T17:57:25","date_gmt":"2025-04-23T21:57:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/?p=18058"},"modified":"2025-04-23T18:03:27","modified_gmt":"2025-04-23T22:03:27","slug":"post-lent-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2025\/04\/post-lent-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Post-Lent Report"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

After a season of some fasting and penances, I get on my scale, and it is just as I feared. My ego was roughly at the same weight. I thought perhaps that humility, like muscle, weighs more and that accounts for this. Unlikely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Each Lent I go in with some expectations of not just seek detachment from materials things, but seeking more attachment to Jesus. Well really, I start off with more materialistic goals of “giving things up” and forgetting about gaining more of all that matters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I came across this today from Rev. Fr. Peter T. Rohrbach’s book on St. Teresa of Avila, “Conversation with Christ.” From a chapter where he writes on meditation and gives examples.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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My eye runs down the page, and I continue reading: \u201cFor a man does himself more harm if he seeks not Jesus, than the whole world and all his enemies could do.\u201d \u2026 This is something of which I must convince myself and work into the very fabric of my life: that the most grave evil which could befall me is separation from You.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Once again, I was stuck on the process and not on the goal. Thus, setting myself up for disappointment in my Lenten disciplines. I slowly learn that perhaps the worst thing that could happen to me is if I was totally successful in these disciplines and thus attributed any success to my perseverance and effort.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cHomo proponit, sed Deus disponit<\/em>\u201d, \u201cMan proposes, but God disposes.\u201d, The Imitation of Christ<\/em>, Book I, Chapter 19.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

So “Yeah!” on my failure to “Lent” as I would want. It is impossible to take a selfie snapshot of your own interior life and understand everything going on. Do I love God and others more? I hope so. I at least desire it. Even progress on a glacier scale is progress.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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