 | Don't Give Up for Lent - Add up!! |
I don't know whether I'm embarrassed or proud to say that I'm an old fashioned Catholic, still observing Lent in the good old fashioned way, which is to say that I'm sitting here in front of my computer with a smudge of ash on my head. I like it. See here's the thing, I've come to the age where I really don't have to do things I don't like anymore. That's pretty good. I don't give up things for Lent any more. I try instead to add things to my life, to find activities, or books, or meditations that make me more the person I'm supposed to be. As the years go on, I figure I'd better get it together if I'm ever going to. Florence Littauer, author, professional speaker, and humorist summed it up for me when she said, "I feel as if I'm cramming for a final examination I have no hope of passing. " My number two son just reported on his facebook page that when the priest asked at Mass tonight "What keeps you from being free?" a second grader answered "Our Parent s." Well, there's always something isn't there? I'd love to hear what, if anything, you do to observe Lent.
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