Lent is the season beginning Ash Wednesday and lasting until Easter when many of us Christians give up something in order to illuminate Christ’s suffering and crucifixion. I have to be honest and say that I do not recall a single season of Lent that I successfully abstained from my sacrificial token.
I decided this year was going to be different! My first thought was to give up sarcasm, yea right. I work with middle school students day in and day out; I wouldn’t last long with out tool. What’s next on the list, tipple? Did I mention I work with middle school aged kiddos……so it is on to the next sacrificial offering. Decadent desserts, that’s it! No, my lovely wife has us both basking on the dreary dietary South Beach. Drats! I’ve got it now, I can abstain from Facebook. Who am I kidding, how would I keep up with all my close friends; you know the ones I haven’t seen in 30+ years. Community is biblical, right?
So here I am in the first leg of Lent with no offering. Maybe I should take something up for Lent rather than giving it up. Any ideas?
I guess I will just rely on grace, RT.
R.T. searcher, seeker, sojourner. Not all who wander are lost, maybe temporarily disoriented, but not lost.
I thought perhaps that RT had given up blogging for Lent, but it’s been over for weeks and still no sign of him.