So the season of Blent or Ash Wednesday would have been the whole thing we're doing right now.

It's one of, I think it's one of my favorite seasons because it's so clear, right?

It's so clear that another season is kind of like, what am I supposed to be doing right now

exactly when it comes to church?

Like ordinary time is just, I don't even know, keep going to mass, I guess.

But like Lent is so good because it's a season of action, right?

It's a season where it's just, you get to do something.

In fact, the beginning of mass, we ask the question, what are you going to do for Lent?

That's the question because there's something about Lent that I think gives people purpose.

Where the idea is that the end of this season, I'm actually supposed to be different than I was going into this season.

And that's so, so good.

It's also one of the days, I don't know if you've ever noticed this, it's like Ash Wednesday is one of the days,

or Lent is one of the seasons where it seems like more and more people return.

Like the more and more people come back to church, maybe this is one of your first times being back in church in a while.

And I love this, again, one of the reasons why I love Lent is because we do something you have action, there's purpose,

and there's something about like returning to God and returning to church that is so,

just, is real.

And it's necessary because I think so often, so many of us are tempted to run away.

You know Joel in the first reading, he says, return to the Lord with your whole heart.

And I think so many of us are tempted to run away from the Lord and love him halfheartedly.

Or maybe even a better way to say it rather than run away, I think a lot of us just end up, end up drifting away.

Because when we drift away, I think we resort to our default.

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