Thoughts on Lent

Each year we, as a family, celebrate Lent. I'm not so sure that "celebrate" is a great word for what it ends up being for me, but whatever...

I've given up a myriad of things in order to bring my heart and mind closer to Jesus during the season of His Passion. Every one of them worked in that regard until this year when I chose to give up being snarky. It seems that the act of snark is so greatly imbued in me that I've found the one (ha!) thing that I truly need to work on losing.

So, when I read one of my GoogleReader posts just now it made me feel a bit better that I'm not alone in finding that sometimes fasting (giving up whatever is important to an individual in order to bring focus on the really important issues) defeats the purpose. It defeats the purpose until you realize that your purpose really needs to be defeated and ... egad... I know I must not be alone here in my spiritual struggle.

Anyway - read the post here. I'd tell you more about the author but I couldn't find a quick/easy "about me" link and I was too frustrated by my lack of pretty much everything spiritually important to continue on searching for it.