Greetings and blessings to all of you. In a few days, we celebrate Ash Wednesday, and begin a season in which you and I are called to repentance and conversion.

How a person goes about the journey of conversion may be different for each of us. Lent is not meant to be a solemn and gloomy season, but a season of grace. It should be a season we take seriously, but a joyful season, because it does lead to new life in Christ Jesus.