Day Four // February 29 // Growing Fullness “For fifteen years, I was a teacher of youth. They were years out of the fullness and bloom of my younger manhood. They were years mingled of half breathless work, of anxious self-questionings, of planning and replanning, of disillusion, or mounting wonder.” – W. E. B. DuBois –
Years ago, a British newspaper offered a prize for the best response to the question, “What is wrong with the world?” The winning letter was the shortest. This note simply said, “Dear Sir, I Am,” and it was signed G. K. Chesterton. Lent thrusts us into a season of deep self-reflection. It is a time to evaluate how we have squandered God’s opportunities and filled our lives with our own agendas rather than God’s. Psalm 127:1 declares: “Unless the Lord builds the house, those who build it labor in vain. Unless the Lord guards the city, the guard keeps watch in vain.” The question is: Who builds the house of our lives? Whose values guard our communities? Unless we fill our lives
