Warm water enveloping my head in a forest rainfall. Everything
is quiet and I can meditate. That is my morning ritual. My bride, the Love Goddess,
enjoys the “massage” settings that punches her with water 1,492 times a minute.
While she is free and relaxed I have the percussion section blasting Carmina
Burana at 300 decibels. The thump reverberates through the whole house.
Next morning I change our shower back to the Serene Forest
rainfall and the Love Goddess will turn on a Jackhammer. The pattern has
repeated itself for the last 7 years since we got the new shower head. Last
week, after my shower, I changed the shower to Jackhammer mode for the Love
Goddess. She was startled. She had never heard how loud the shower was before. She
still likes jackhammer mode, but is aware of how loud it is.
That’s when I realized that Lent is about getting out of the
shower. Seeing yourself from a different perspective, getting clean from a
spiritual perspective. What the Love Goddess didn’t know was the shower sounded
rocks in the garbage disposal. It’s not bad, it’s self-awareness.
Getting back on the spiritual path is as easy as jumping into the
shower only drier. Make the effort to get to church, do an extra prayer, skip
that dessert, etc. Shake things up and intensify. I’ll paraphrase CS Lewis “I
didn’t know what a straight line was until I saw one. I had been looking at
curves that I thought were straight.” So the moral is – take a shower and get
some perspective.
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