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In his book, Everything Belongs, Richard Rohr writes:   We seldom go freely into the belly of the beast. … As a culture, we have to be taught the language of descent. That is the language of religion. It teaches us to enter willingly, trustingly into the dark period of life. These dark periods are good teachers. Religious energy is in the dark questions, seldom in the answers. Answers are the way out, but … when we look at the questions, we look for the opening to transformation.   It feels to me that we are truly in the “dark period of life.” In many ways, these past two years have been like living in the “belly of the beast.”  And now, as we watch a needless, evil, ruthless, devastating war in Ukraine, it feels as though the belly of the beast just seems to grow wider and deeper.  We are living in one of those dark times, a dark period we would not have freely entered. But, as Rohr says, dark times are good teachers.  And, as we come to Ash Wednesday, this first day of Lent, just maybe our Lenten journey is