God's Eyes
The Lenten journey is a reminder to me that I need to look at those who perhaps have done me harm or treated me poorly. I think of Luke: “But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing in return, and your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High, for he is kind to the ungrateful and the evil.” (Luke 6:35) The hardest thing to do is to treat everyone who is sacred. I watched a movie starring Woody Harrelson entitled “Champions.” In the movie, Woody’s character learns that one of the characters will not play basketball for him because he was in an accident where he sustained a traumatic brain injury. Woody has to coach as a community service sentence for drunken driving. The boy “hates" drunken drivers. The boy's mother encouraged the boy to forgive. Learning to forgive hurt is difficult, yet I think that is part of the Lenten process. Who is your “enemy”? Who do you need to forgive, and see the person created by God on the path…