Giving up chocolate, our favorite tv show, coffee, Guinness, or scotch are all lenten practices that I have tried - to varying degrees of success. In our house growing up, my sisters and I gave up many things, but we were also expected to do more. Instead of jut giving up stuff, we were to perform more acts of kindness - volunteer, attend more masses. We were meant to change our lives as much by addition than by subtraction.
Our lives today are busier and more hectic than ever and working to eliminate some of the burden is important, but as the saying goes, "Nature abhors a vacuum." When you free up time and space in you life, what will you do with that time?
Lent attempts to remind us that by working on our own lives, we can then go out and change the lives of others.
1 comment:
Beautiful reminder-- and on the Feast of St. Polycarp too!. Mrs Buskey must be thrilled. He was her favorite.
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