A Turn Up

About ten days ago I discovered that I had lost a gold chain that I habitually wear around my neck. More importantly, to me at least, was the fact that I had also lost the gold crucifix that was on the chain and which was my promise to myself about my renewed feelings of faith when I was deep in a crisis of personal despair about four years ago.
I think I had effectively gone into a period of mourning about this loss and was just about over the loss, mainly due to my wife realising how much the chain meant to me and her buying me a replacement as a very early and very welcome Christmas present, when, whilst cleaning up some things in my sons bedroom the cross made a very welcome reappearance.
How it got there I can only speculate - probably I had been cleaning up previously and had lost it - but the fact was that I had got it back again. It felt once again like a promise renewed and the hand of an old and trusted friend was back where it should be. All my other burdens seemed to have been lifted by finding it and putting it back where it belongs both around my neck and in my heart.
I have to say that this episode also reminds me of how I felt when my christian beliefs also became important in my life again and it makes me remember how much the knowledge that I am never truly alone because God is always present with me even when I despair.

Approaching Lent

As sort of a follow up to the last post I wrote I want to pose this question which I found myself pondering in when I was on my latest walk. Whilst out walking and just turning things over in my mind, I found myself thinking about Lent. No particular reason triggered this but for some reason I find myself looking forward to Lent this year. I find ths a bit strange, looking forward to Easter I can understand, but not necessarily Lent unless it is the anticipation of Easter.

Would anyone care to come back to me with ideas as to why this might be?