It's over a week into Easter and I'm posting this a bit late. I though is was worth noting as a personal reflection, though. Like many, or even most people, I felt my journey through lent was less that I had hoped for in so far as I had tried and failed and tried again. It often became an exercise in spiritual poverty or often a brutal look at how I shifted from one crutch to another in letting go of the stone which blocked my path to deeper intimacy with the Lord. But then the voice of the Spirit kept coming back to me to "let me!" do what I can't do by my own efforts. This brought me into Easter where I realized I'm a new way that these 50 days are the time when the Spirit completes the transformation which I couldn't accomplish during lent. So of your lent felt like a failure and the voice of the demon is telling you to go back to the way things were, don't accept his discouragement. For so many of us, lent is a temporary time of renewal rather than a permanent movement of transformation in the Spirit. The Spirit is within. Let's listen to his promptings as He gives us a new joy to say yes to Him and no to the flesh.