to love... or not to love...that is the question.

Lent²

—noun 

1. (in the Christian religion) an annual season of fasting and penitence in preparation for Easter, beginning on Ash Wednesday and lasting 40 weekdays to Easter, observed by Roman Catholic, Anglican, and certain other churches

Today was Ash Wednesday.

Although our church does not formally observe the day (yet does observe the season in preparation for Easter) it seems that our offspring has fully embraced the day and season by fasting from...

love for one another...

exactly what a parent would hope for them to gain from this tradition, of course. 
This [tr]ashy day alone has seen physical brotherly violence, sibling verbal abuse, astonishing selfish assertions and prideful justifications of atrocities too absurd to mention.

Bah.

I am on my third glass of whine ^(sic) for the evening. Just say'in. 

May the fullness of the grace of the cross be ours... 

now and forever more...

and more...

and more!!!!

Should they look angelic to the untrained eye... be ye not fooled.
They are NOT!!