For me, Lent is a time to reflect on what I have done this year and the choices I have made. Lent is a time for me to look forward into my life. Each year I hope to improve upon the aspects of my life that are not how I want them to be in order to have a better chance at reaching my goals. My great-aunt gives us prayer books each year for Lent. Along with reading the passages in those, I try to make a more concerted effort to center myself during those forty days. That can take different forms throughout the season from getting more sleep, to writing in my journal, to trying to leave the house five minutes earlier so that I am not so stressed in the morning.
I have never been good at giving up something for Lent. Frankly, I never understood the concept until I got to Mount. As a child, my family and I always had a bowl on the table in which we would each place change that accumulated over the forty days. At the end of the season, we would donate the money to a charity of our choice. This year, I am going to do something different. I have a nervous habit that I am going to try to break. I know it will not be easy to stop because I have tried to stop before. However, that is such a small problem compared to problems other people have. I hope that if I think of the struggles other people go through and how lucky I am, that I can break my habit over Lent with God's help.
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