I have exactly one hour before my least favorite season of the year begins--lent (I am eating a chocolate bar as I write this, just so you know).
I hate it, but lent is always really good for me.
Some lents I give things up, some lents I do something extra, (sometimes I do both). This year, I am going to get my prayer life more in order and do some spiritual reading. When things get busy, it's so hard to sit down and make time for prayer. In reality, it should be like breathing. When I get busy, I usually go for the most important task I need to do first, when what I really should be doing is taking a breath before the plunge (prayer). Discipline is something everyone needs, especially in the spiritual side of things. I figure that if I can get that part of my life in regimental order, I can do anything.
I am also going without sweets, because it wouldn't be lent without that.
I don't like lent because it makes me change. I don't like change, but it's good for me.
Hello internet, this is what my lent is going to be like (now I have all of you to remind me of the shame I will incur if I don't do what I set out to do).
53 minutes...and one last piece of chocolate before I turn in.
I think that I am going to go the route of doing something extra this year. I'll do the giving up stuff that the whole family does... but I don't know. I feel like I'm detached enough from stuff/I adjust quickly so that anything I give up usually isn't that hard. Time to work on disciplining my spiritual life a little bit more!
ReplyDeleteIf you think about it, doing something extra like going to Mass every weekday (my sacrifice) is actually giving up something very precious. Time! Not that it was going to be used very effectively anyways, but still.
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