Steven Nyl: Why let go of things in Lent?

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“The Lord calls us to be freed from whatever possesses us so that the only treasure that matters to us is the Kingdom of God.”

Steven Nyl in Redemptorists of the Denver Province post on 3 March 2014.

We are learning that what we think we own really owns us, because only God owns everything. And we are finding that the call to let go of things is actually invitation to freedom. So as Lent begins we are asking this question: “What things do we need to be freed from?”