BOB PEDEN
Good Morning. This is Bob Peden of Central United Methodist Church. The Mardi Gras season ended last night at midnight. They rolled up the streets in New Orleans.
Today they are hauling away the tons of trinkets and trash left in the gutters.
Today begins the season of lent, the 40 days leading up to Easter Sunday. Lent always begins on Ash Wednesday. A day Christians focus on our need for repentance. Repentance not only for the excesses of Mardi Gras but also for the excesses of our daily lives. Lent is a time for us to examine our lives and root out that which keeps us from becoming fully committed disciples of Jesus Christ. It is a time to put down our burdens of keeping up with the Joneses and impressing the social elite and to take up our cross and follow Jesus. That is the only way to full and complete joy.
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