Changed?

So, only a week to go and we can be back to our pre-lent ways of being... only that's not the point is it? I really liked the idea of thinking what it was I needed to do in order to be more like the person I wanted to be on Easter Sunday so the point of my Lenten practice was to change me. I still have a couple of tasks I've not done yet – buying a homeless person a hot drink and planting a tree. But my fave act of generosity so far was one I devised myself rather than had suggested to me – the flower distribution – and I'm esp pleased as I bought the flowers when I didn't have my bank card – it feels much harder to be generous when having to be especially careful with money – and I'm now wondering if that was the lesson of losing it.

Yesterday I went to a fab birthday party and didn't even consider taking a present – standard generosity – so I still have way to go. But being generous is so much more than spending or parting with something material, obviously. I feel I'm already pretty generous with my time, my attention, my love and I shall continue to seek opportunities to be more so. And next year – developing patience!!!!