Lent: Spring, salvation

You should really read this post by Pr. Sumpter.

http://havingtwolegs.blogspot.com/2011/03/gospel-of-lent.html

Oh, here is a snippet from the middle of the message, to pique your interest:

"Whether it takes another few hundred years or thirty-thousand more years, the history of this planet will be the story of salvation, the victory of grace, and the vast majority of humanity will be saved. Hell will be a small, dark speck populated with a tiny band of gollums making love to their darkness.

In other words, the story of history is an enormous Springtime. It is the story of Lent, the story of days getting longer, the world getting lighter."