Give up to gain

We human beings have an uncanny ability to live by paradoxes.

• We love things and use people; while we need to love people and use things. 
• We act big with the small and small with the big; while we need to be balanced or at least big with the big and small with the small. 
• We focus on having more than being more; while we need to have less to be more. 

And in Lent, we are called to give up to gain.