Out with the old, in with the true is a quote I just heard from a new client. It’s a great quote to start off the Lenten season.
For Lent 2025, I’ll be writing new blog posts every day. I’m writing for just five unedited minutes on a quote of the day to deepen our faith in this Lenten season.
Day 1 – Ash Wednesday, March 5
This quote has stuck with me since I heard it on Tuesday. My new client was commenting on the story of my life I had just shared with her, and she encouraged me with this word. We’ve all heard the phrase “Out with the old, in with the new.” But I hadn’t heard the spinoff “in with the true” until yesterday.
I’m coming out of a long season described as a dark night of the soul. It’s when my faith has been shaken to the core, and my thought life has been sabotaged by trauma and severe depression. I need a thought life refreshment that focuses forward with hope, and I can’t think of a better time to start that than Lent.
Growing up Lutheran, I practiced Lent with a solemn reverence. It was a time to reflect on the suffering Jesus endured on our behalf. The season always turned my thoughts inward. Even as a child, I reflected on my sins and my need for the salvation only Jesus could give me. That’s what made Easter morning so joyful after seven weeks of deep contemplation.
This is what I want to focus on in 2025 as I come out of a tough season filled with dark thoughts. I want to find inspiring quotes based on faith, some from my own books, and ponder them with you in this journey of writing publicly again for the first time in months. I welcome your comments below as you ponder what the quotes mean to you.
Let’s start this season of Lent “out with the old, in with the true” by focusing on God’s unchanging nature and his everlasting Word:
Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things.
Philippians 4:8 NIV
Join me again tomorrow for another reflection on a different quote.
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