Some people do not start a journey, because they do not know where it will end.

I am afraid these are not the thoughts of a profound thinker, but my own as I watched the sunrise with my faithful hounds today; Pippin and Samwise.

Lent can be a bit like that. It is a journey, and by going on the journey we do not know how it will end. In a sense, that is not true, it will end of Easter Day. But in another sense, it is completely true, we do not know how it will end, as we do not know how we will have changed by living through Lent.

I realise that appears to be quite a deep thought for this time on a Sunday morning. However, I am going to leave it there: for today I am going to enjoy the moment.