How can anyone keep up? Here comes Lent

How anyone has the time to really keep up a blog isn't clear to me, unless they really want to be a writer/commentator.  There are so, so many issues in our families, towns, states, countries, the world, the universe that it is impossible to stay on top of it all.

Lent is coming right up.  It is a chance to reflect and try, very, very hard to not be distracted by the unnecessary.  Yesterday afternoon my husband and I were talking at lunch.  We were discussing current events and he asked, "What is important in life?"  (We were discussing big philosophical questions over tacos.)  Without a lot of thinking, what popped out of my mouth was, "Love yourself, love your family, love your neighbor, take care of the animals and the plants, the earth and the sea.  That pretty much says it all for me."  You can decide for yourself what is important if you go back to those precepts.

Peace.