snow?

Snow? I'm not sure we were ready to face this first thing this morning! "Enough!" Right? How does this relate to Lent? Lent's season is rather long, isn't it? When will Easter ever arrive? When will we be able to declare "He is Risen!" And the Christian journey is sometimes like that as well. We struggle with our finiteness, our frailty, our failures and disappoint ourselves, those around us and, we're sure, God our Father. And yet we see progress as we consider where we've once been, how we've once been, and the new snowfall doesn't threaten weeks more of winter but rather it will melt by this afternoon. This is a lapse, not a condition. This was a trip, not a fall. This is a moment, not a while.
John, the Apostle, is blunt about sin. He declares that only self-deceived people say that they don't sin.  But he tells us that we have an Advocate with the Father when we do sin. He tells us that "if we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness." (1 Jn 1.9)