Lent 2014 - My Goals This Lenten Season - Day One

I decided to try to keep focused this Lenten season on the good examples so abundant in the life of Jesus. Too often, we focus on the words he said, on the words his disciples said, and not on what he did.

By doing this, I can remind myself that everyone we have contact with, each and every day, is affected by our lives and the way we live them. 

Oh, I don't kid myself into thinking I'm all that great at being good. But I can definitely improve in at least a zillion small ways.

A friend and I were talking just a day or so ago about how Christ never criticized a person's personality or their way of speaking. I cannot tell you how many times I have commented to friends and loved ones about how I hate it when this person says this, or that person says that. I complain about the bad language I hear around me.

Jesus gave me the best example ever just by living the way he did. Nowhere in the Bible does it say that he criticized the twelve who followed him. And I am very sure that hanging out with a bunch of fishermen meant Jesus heard some fairly salty words along the way.

And he never said anything directly about this one being greedy or that one eating too much or another one butting in on conversations.

 
Sweet Lord Jesus, help me each and every day this Lenten season to see something in the way you lived your life on earth, something I can use to guide me in my own life.