Today is Ash Wednesday and I need to figure out what I am giving up for Lent (40 days).
Last year I tried to give up blogging but failed miserably.
Other things I've tried giving up include:
- food
- cigarettes
- television
- sex
So this year, I need to be a bit more specific. I realize that giving up FOOD on a whole might kill me. And I don't think Jesus wants me to die for him ... umm, even though at the end of the 40 days, he kind of sort of died for me. We have an understanding. I could give up something like chocolate, but I don't want it to backfire and I end up eating like 10 of those 100 calorie chocolate bars on day 4. I think that food should just be left alone this Lent.
Cigarettes are a no no, because there are none to give up! Yup, I'm a non-smoker now.
Television, I don't watch as much as it is. I guess I could give up my favourite shows, but in all honesty, some nights I forget they are even on and end up missing them based on my own forgetfulness.
Sex, well how do you give up sex that you are not having? I'm pretty sure my hymen has found a way to staple itself back together again.
I always have a hard time with this one. Maybe I should give up washing my hair and see what happens. I guess dreads could look good on me. Or I could give up buying iTunes. My wallet will thank me on that one.
Maybe I should just give up. As in, "I surrender." I wonder how that would go ...
26 comments:
I have been a "thoroughly lapsed Catholic" for longer than my Mother admits. Yet for some reason, I still try to observe Lenten rituals (except the ones that actually require me to, you know, enter a church.)
I too have no idea what I will be sacrificing for the next two fortnights.
I no longer "give Up" anything but rather try to find some time each day to genuinely reflect on what lent is.
Read a piece of relevant scripture, say a prayer, have some quiet reflection time - find perspective and maybe apply it to the present.
Another blogger has given up on giving up. Instead, she is committing to doing something (in a challenging way) for the next 40 days. The girl who hates working out is committing to going to the gym four days a week and going to yoga once on top of that. What about making a sacrificial commitment like that?
YAY for being a non-smoker!! I quit too!
You are hilarious. I'm giving up sugar/sweets. I'm trying to go hard core like my grandma.
I'm going to be crazy like give up fruit or all kinds of sugar, but no sodas, and crap I shouldn't be consuming anyway. It's a win for Jesus and a win for me.
I mean. I'm not going to be crazy. haha
Maybe you should do what my mom does, which, now that I think about it, could have stemmed from many miserable attempts at trying to give something up.
She says she concentrates on making herself a better person.
Sometimes I think, "Awww... thats so nice!"
Other times I think, "Thats a load of crap."
I have an idea.
I don't know if you are a coffee drinker or not. But if you were (imagine so), then if you could not buy your coffee at Starbucks or Tim Hortons, rather make it at home.
You can give the money you save to a charity.
I like Nilsa's suggestion. Sure, it's not truly a lenten sacrifice but it's an interesting take on it. I may do that this year, actually.
And I'm glad you're not giving up blogging like you tried to do last year. That sucked, yo.
OMG: "I'm pretty sure my hymen has found a way to staple itself back together again."
Are you TRYING to make me spill my coffee on myself??
As an atheist I don't have to give up anything but if it will help, I will give up a little chocolate so you only have to give up a little as well.
I'm giving up killing babies.
Piece. Of. Cake.
I think I am going to go with no more sweets. Or fast food. But the fast food is hard when I have a husband that LOVES it.
ash wednesday!
thanks for reminding me.
try giving up blush...if you wear it.
just a thought.
You could give up smacking students who are cunt ass whores. Just another thought.
I don't get Lent. Let's be bitchy by denying ourselves "bah blah blah" for 40 days, be miserable to everyone around us and say that brings us closer to Jesus' suffering in the desert. Well, that's not a recipe for community I care to follow. I like people to be happy and friendly when together. bah humbug lent!
The word Staple is such a disgusting visaul in that sentance..
Dare ya to give up sex though.. Because you know if you don't have the option, all of a sudden there will be an opportunity (It's like having the whole, no girlfriend - nobody wants ya, girlfriend - everyone wants you.)
I think you should give up censoring yourself - including at school when addressing certain grade 8 girls.
I'm giving up shopping and junk food-- not being in regular practice (nor Catholic, Lutheran, etc.) this should be interesting.
But in all seriousness, giving up can also be giving OF- as in a sacrifice. So there's another way to look at it. Again, no real frame of reference here.
not being religious at all, and definitely not being catholic I'm still giving up something for lent. Basically because it's a prescribed set of time and I can't keep saying "do over, I'll start tomorrow" in my head whenever I want what it is I've given up.
Last year it was white (refined) carbs but that's pretty impossible in Australia. This year it's cheese. We'll see how it goes.
I'm giving up snooze. I LOVE snooze so it will be hard.
Jules made me laugh out loud. I follow my Dad's example, and give up Lent itself. Why hurt yourself making these kinds of decisions when there are cunt ass whores in your class who require all that energy instead?
Jules made me laugh out loud. I follow my Dad's example, and give up Lent itself. Why hurt yourself making these kinds of decisions when there are cunt ass whores in your class who require all that energy instead?
I give up living in denial. Isn't that Lent? Oh yeah, and it involves eating lentils along the way.
I see why my brother and I are related.
lol ...I gave up Ash Wednesday ...it stuck. :)
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