Someone said that  salvation is the moment God's search for us is met with our search for God. God desires our salvation and has made it possible for us to be saved through the sacrifice of his Son. We have been saved. But that grace of salvation becomes personally effective when we search for God in our need for salvation.  At that moment, God reveals his desire for us. He desires us to be  united to him in love. That is one of the effects of salvation. For he gives us a share in  his own divine life. But like the initial grace of salvation, we must hunger and thirst for this union with God before this gift can reach fulfillment. Lent is a time to remove the roadblocks within us to the fullness of salvation.