A period of Abstinence and Sacrifice

ASH WEDNESDAY
      The statement from dust we emerged and unto dust we shall return, readily comes to mind during the ash Wednesday popularly celebrated during the lenting  season.
     When I was younger, the thoughts of the inevitable; death, had always frightened me.  As I soon developed a phobia for oblivion; the fear of what the life after death held, but most of all, the fear of being trapped in a dark void. But I soon got over this phobia by praying for the dead.
     The lenting season especially in the view of the Catholic faith is a period of abstinence and sacrifice, a period of avoiding or making an attempt to avoid the inevitable;sin,  and making an attempt to let go for others.
        I soon figured out that all my rising fears were from my status as a sinner and that biting phobia of never attaining spiritual perfection.  But a sting of relief bit out at me like a ray of hope, and with the softness of the voice reassuring my troubled soul, I had no other option than to pick myself up... It went thus “ for the angels and Saints, it is the little things we do right that matters”.  E. G that morning prayer well said, that constant warmth we give to our neighbors, that continuous act of GENEROSITY, that good advice void of malice we give to the needy, and that warm smile you give to the troubled. Indeed it is the little things that open the way for the bigger things to come.
      Still a sinner and I don't do things perfectly right, but I still cling unto that ray of hope that pierces the darkness, it gradually brightened my world and I am positive that it would brighten yours too.