a head like a leaky bucket [have I... ]
Topic: seasonal

^{since I have so many thoughts and memories that I've not kept track of- they run in and out of my mind and of today's three artistic inspirations (actually, more than that...) I have clung hard to one only. -still, though that is true today I have spent my time in working and have seen to mortifying myself by not first indulging in the things I wish to do and neglecting housework, but in cleaning and cooking instead. I still have a long way to go [with regards to refinement and improving my soul this Lent] though...}


[Anyway,] today's Lenten meditation from the Magnificat bears this title:

The Love for Which Our Heart Is Made
and focuses on the Gospel reading from the Mass (Luke 16:19-31) -it takes a different look at the parable about Lazarus and the rich man, emphasizing that we are not to merely be aware of the poor and take action to help them (which is a good and needed message heard quite often at times) but that to live well [so as not to become a citizen of Hell] one's heart must learn to love God, and that in perfect love of God then [and only then] will we be able to see what is around us and take good action.

and so, with that in mind, today's penance is to:

Do something charitable for the homeless.

-after seeing that, I immediately recalled "Tent City" since it had been in the recent news for Florida for quite awhile, but when I went to look it up on Google I clicked on the sponsored link instead -that lead me to these three good local charities:

[Hope Children's Home]
[American Association of Kidney Patients]
[Florida West Coast Public Broadcasting]

obviously, it is the first of these in the list that is the most pertinent and relative to today's penance, but I am interested in all three since they are good causes (with the best being the first of course) -I wonder what kinds of payment they accept...

also, I still have so many clothes and things that I want to give away/donate after I go through a good through spring cleaning of my possessions so I could start with that today as well...

_{and in other news, I finally finished reading through Proverbs and have started reading through the Psalms (I didn't start from the beginning of that fine book through since I fell upon an area that I bookmarked- the part in which David asks God for forgiveness after being visited by the prophet Nathan after committing adultery with Bathsheba...)}