Coming Into Lent, Coming into Our True Selves

A paraphrase from the Ash Wednesday prayer:
O God, you hate nothing that you have made.

We don't think about Lent as a time where we find the beauty of our souls, but that is what happens when we contemplate our created selves, enter into God's presence and find the soul that God has created within us. We each are unique persons, we each radiate a beauty that is our true self. The self that is not what others want us to be, what we think we should be, or what we strive so hard to become because we think we are sinful by nature and must be perfect.

This Lent, I challenge myself to become more the "me" that I was meant to be. A challenge that only God can help me meet.