Lent Guide 2023Sample

Wednesday – Holy detachment

You were taught, with regard to your former way of life, to put off your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires; to be made new in the attitude of your minds; and to put on the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness.

Ephesians 4:22-24

Rachel Murray Martin wrote these wise words: “Sometimes you have to let go of the picture of what you thought life would be like and learn to find joy in the story you are actually living.”

To make peace with how life is – and to let go of the idea of how my life was supposed to be – is a long and arduous process, but incredibly freeing. God would like to see a deep peace in each of our lives. I am invited to live with a “holy detachment” – the ability to let people and things in my life go in a holy way, to let life run its course, to not live with unhealthy patterns in my life.

I suspect that freedom from resentment grows in my heart when I start to identify the unhealthy processes in my life, break them, then let them go. Then I can grow in a life of responsibility and forgiveness and freedom.

Of which unhealthy patterns in your life are you becoming aware?
What are you clinging to?

Grace:

Lord, give me the grace of freedom from resentment.