Lenten Journey - Day 15

The term "despite" is a frame of mind. This Lenten season, let us reflect on how we can live, love, and serve God and one another "despite" our circumstances. When we play jump rope with our daughters, despite the need to finish paying the bills, we are choosing love over obligation. When we take the time to talk with a friend, despite being late for a meeting, we are choosing people over institutions. When we make our way to a house of worship, despite all the other places we need to be, we are choosing that which is eternal over the temporary. When we actively choose to worship and love God, even despite God's apparent silence, we are operating in faith. Remember that faith is the substance of things hoped for and the evidence of things not seen.