All year, we work hard to find what we can add to our lives that will make us better. Then comes Lent, a season where we try depriving ourselves, to see if we can become more by way of subtraction.

But you and I are infinitely loved. What can we add or subtract that will enhance something infinite? What can we achieve or acquire that would condition unconditional love to love us more?

The following are meditations and essays on becoming what we are. A few weeks of thinking differently, subtracting from ourselves no more than that which obscures the underlying truth. Adding to ourselves no more than the awareness needed to see we’re already enough, and that the Kingdom is at hand.