Today’s Gospel reading (Luke 6:36-38) is so rich and beautiful. I pray that we each can be blest through this passage during our prayer time today.
One phrase in particular points to profound experience: Forgive and be forgiven. Reflecting on your relationships with God, with yourself, and with others: What are your most moving memories of being forgiven? Of forgiving? What have those experiences given to you? What are aches you bear now, that point toward a need for forgiveness? Will your Lent become more complete for you if you lean into the forgiveness and healing needed?
The Church supplies us with a full array of considerations for a meaningful Lent - Easter: the culmination of the Good News of Jesus that we delve into all year; prayer, fasting and almsgiving; metanoia / conversion into the path of crucifixion-resurrection; communal reconciliation; and more. As a lifeblood pulse underlying all these: forgive and be forgiven. Living that pulse profoundly, we become spiritual lifeblood for others.