Last week I spoke of my first week, of my first experience of participating in Lent (Week One of Lent), by eliminating cream from my daily, morning coffee.
Withdrawal from what one loves can feel like a real sacrifice … until one remembers the One whose sacrifice yours is a symbol of.
This past weekend I saw a video (below), and before it was finished, I found myself thinking, what a beautiful sacrifice of love.
And sacrifice for love is what Lent leads us to understand.
Gerdi McKenna is a woman who was diagnosed with breast cancer, just this past February, in South Africa.
I cannot imagine what that news must be like.
I cannot imagine what it is like to walk with one close to me, through the journey that breast cancer leads.
Gerdi is a loved woman.
Watch the video, below, to see just how loved she is :
What a personal sacrifice!
But, for those who participated, what seems to have taken the edge off of the very personal sacrifice is the fact that they were doing it for one they loved.
Isn’t that just how love is?
We would do anything for those we love!
And that is what Lent reminds us
That Christ would do anything for love!
But I won’t do that
Even that …
Most awful, horrible act of being sacrificed physically on a cross,
And of being separated from His Father.
That is sacrifice for love!
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