A Story About Grace
“Hey Dad, why do some kids at school have ashes on their foreheads?” the kids asked.
“It’s a Catholic symbol for Ash Wednesday, the day before Lent.” I responded.
“What’s Lent?”
That’s a great question. I went on to explain what Lent is and the response quite honestly shocked me.
“We need to give something up!”
Libby, our eight year old daughter gave up chocolate. Little did we know this decision was about to transform a life.
My wife, Amy, and I are not legalists or traditionalists. We buck against kind of traditionalism and legalism. If you say we “have” to do something, odds are we won’t. Up until our kids wanted to participate in a Lenten fast it never really crossed our minds to do so.
I have been so impressed at the faithfulness of my little family. Lent has been pretty well kept in our home and that’s saying something.
However, one day at a party Libby wanted chocolate. Everyone else was having chocolate, but she...