I recently read Cathleen Falsani's "Sin Boldly= a Field Guide to Grace" and highly recommend it. This is from USA Today-
For a fresh look at the spiritual dimensions of a Christian holy day, I always check in at Cathleen Falsani's blog, The Dude Abides.
Sure enough, her essay on Lent takes you in new directions. She shares a sermon from one of the priests at her Episcopal parish near Chicago. Mother Katie, she writes,
... talked about the typical approaches of marking the Lenten fast by either giving something up or adding a new spiritual practice. Whether we add or subtract is up to us, she said, and we should choose something that honestly will help us focus on shaping the spirit (and not just taming the flesh).
"How can you mark this time before Easter as a special time of year, a time to examine your life and what controls it? What will help you proclaim to others that you have and . . . are listening to the world around you?"
"We are called to listen," Mother Katie said, "to look at the world as it is, not just as we would have it to be."
http://content.usatoday.com/communities/religion/post/2009/02/63300347/1
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