Big THANK YOU from me!!
I need your help. I have never actively participated in the Lenten season. Thanks to some gentle "nudging", I will be reading the daily devotions and blogging this year.
What are you doing/giving up/changing for Lent? Please let me hear from you - I learn so much from hearing other people's stories!! I would really like to share this journey with you!!
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My oldest daughter has given up TV for the last three seasons of lent. She struggles, and complains wishing she had chosen something different. Each year she chooses it again. I admire her. I don't know that I have that kind of well... discipline.
ReplyDeleteI am giving up all sodas. This is HUGE for me. So far though, I haven't had any headaches..(knock on wood). I have restricted myself to water, milk, and lemonade. What are you giving up?
ReplyDeleteI am giving up breakfast and lunch on Wednesdays, and breaking the fast at the church supper. Yesterday went well, with occasional stomach grumbling, until in the late afternoon I started to smell the bread baking. I tried to use that as a reminder to think of Holy Communion and Christ as the bread of life, but really all I could think about was how good bread smells.
ReplyDeleteI am giving up something in a round about way. I am giving up free time to do the daily devotion and to blog. That's all so far - I may add more when I see what other people are doing.
ReplyDeleteThrough the years, I have given up many things. Not having my ice cream always hurt the most. For 2 years, I had to drive by the DQ to get to Wed. night service during Lent. This season I am not giving up anything - I can't have ice cream anyway!! I am spending more time in study and talking and listening to God. I look forward to my time with Him.
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ReplyDeleteI am giving up NOT spending enough prayer time with the Lord. I pray at each meal (and snack) and pray at night as I am falling asleep (not bragging) but for 40 days I will pray more deliberately to seek God, not just when I need him, but also to talk to him, thank him and get to know him more intimately. My prayer is that after 40 days it will become part of my life, not something that diminishes after Lent.
ReplyDeleteI am trying to keep a disciplined Lent. No alcohol, sweets, very little meat and small meals. Am adding more prayer time and inner reflection. Father Bolton made an interesting comment during his sermon yesterday following the reading about Jesus going into the wilderness. He said that perhaps just giving up chocolate or alcohol or some such thing might not be as meaningful as to go out into the wilderness. One example might be to remove ourselves from socializing during Lent.(Our own wilderness.) I have done that thus far and based on his comments will continue to try to do so for the remainder of Lent. This will probably be the most difficult thing as I am such a social person.
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