Back Again...

I'm going to try this blogging thing again.  I am inspired by my friends of faith to pick it back up...hopefully they will read it, cause the family back home certainly wasn't.  Sorry ya'll, but you weren't.  So I'm back.  Maybe I can blog once a year and see what happens.  Just kidding.  This will be my computer time during Lent... 

So Lent started yesterday and as it has been in the past, I have already started carrying a sort of "cross."  It never seems to fail that my Lent's (can Lent be mine??) are always very difficult.  I have always considered Lent to be a very intense time, a time of reflection, repenting, turning back, like my picture says, 'turning away from sin.'  I once spoke with a priest friend of mine who told me to take my cross and join it with Christ.  Those words have stayed with me for a long time, and even though I tend to slip into those pity party moments of, "whoa-is-me...everybody hates me, I'm so alone, why is this happening..." I am able to see after the fact, the Hand of God in each cross I've had to bare.  And this Lent is no exception.  Minus the fact that I started my Lenten journey carrying my cross the first of January... 

So, with the start of Lent this year, comes the re-birth of my blog.  We shall see where it takes me.  Surely I can keep this up for 40 days?  My husband would tell me to quit calling him surely... ;)