The obvious deception here is that winning can’t be everything, by definition it is at most half of everything.  The other half is losing, which our society tends to deny and avoids.  But that’s not healthy, whole or rational. We will face as many losses in our life as wins; and the older we get it trends that way; loss of youth, loss of your forties, loss of health or loss of kids who are now adults. If we don’t learn to lose and the lessons of our losses, we will be like half men and women living half the life God intends for us. Well that’s why Lent is for losers, and it and Scripture are our textbooks for learning loss.