Love this bit from Paul Kingsnorth on Lent:
Deepening is the meaning of Lent: deepening your faith and your relationship with God. It isn’t really about ‘giving things up’, though it entails that. It’s about shedding unnecessary skins. Each Lent, I walk a little further away from ’the world’ and its concerns, which also means walking a little further away from my false image of myself, and all of my selfish concerns. Walk far enough away, and there is nothing left to shelter you but the Presence who lies outside the world, and is waiting for you to come home.