How often do I speak to God, the Father, heart to heart? How often do I frequent the sacraments of Confession and the Eucharist and let the Lord forgive my sins and love me into wholeness and union with him through his Son, Jesus Christ?
How do you arm yourself to be successful in the spiritual battle? Do you think about Jesus as the Messiah, the warrior king who has defeated death and sin?
While the shadow of the ashes is still on our foreheads, and we are ready to travel through the desert of Lent, we should pause for a moment and examine who is leading us this way.