Lent is that season in the life of the church where we’re invited to pay attention to our hunger, to those yearnings that we might use to move us toward what is better for us, our deepest hunger, which is for God. During Lent, we join Jesus in his forty days of disconcerting hunger in the wilderness. Jesus, we are told, is “led by the Spirit” to be “tempted by the devil.” What kind of parent would allow their child to hunger and thirst, to be led into harm’s way?  A parent, perhaps, who believes in the highest potential of their children. A parent, like God the father, who knows that being too attached to the things of this world, prevents us from being attached to the greater things of God and his kingdom.