I know some non-liturgical churches do not observe this period in the church year, however, I want to speak to this season for this month's article. There are many themes which play important roles in the season of Lent. One theme I would like to look at this month is suffering. In the Bible there are many stories about suffering, from Job to the demons in the New Testament, to the man lowered through the roof, to Jesus himself suffering on the cross. In many of these cases, suffering is usually innocent suffering.
People react to the sufferer in many ways.
Suffering is a real person experience for me. I had polio at the age of four and always used crutches and a long leg brace to get around. I tried to make the best of my situation always trying to improve myself doing what the doctors wanted me to do from the many surgeries I had while growing up to doing daily exercises. But some people would always try to say to me I could do more. He did not know that I had just come from a summer living with a cast on my leg due to the surgery I had at the beginning of the summer, and that surgery would eventually make me walk better.