March 9, 2025, the First Sunday of Lent: Thinking of Lent as a pilgrimage has the potential to be a helpful way to begin our reflection for this Sunday’s readings.
If end-of-life care matters, surely it can be strengthened by beginning-of-life wisdom. On this first day of Lent and year-round, I want to model for my children clear-eyed acceptance of what we cannot control and agency in what we can.
His doctors have concluded, however, that “given the complexity of the clinical picture, the prognosis remains guarded,” meaning they do not consider him out of danger yet.