Lenten Projections

The church enters into the Lenten season with Ash Wednesday this week. I try to enhance my faithlife by incorporating something different for the season such as more reflection time, surveying or in-depth study of one of the Gospels, reading theological and religiou education texts, etc. At this time, I'm thinking about the theology of the cross. This is prompted by my reading of The Cross and the Lynching Tree by James Cone.It took me a few days to get throught it; not because of the length (it is a short treatise)but because it could be a meditation. I had to stop often to reflect on the words and images that Cone describes. I wonder what others anticipate during this segment of the church year?