Lent
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“What Are You Giving Up?”
I forget about “giving up” something for Lent every year. (“Every year,” she says, in the two years she’s been here.) Maybe because the date of Ash Wednesday changes, so it’s a last-minute surprise. More likely, giving something up seems the easy way out. I can swear off common vices like chocolate or coffee, and… Continue reading
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Lent, Round 2
“This will be my first Lent as a full Catholic,” I proudly declared. “Oh word,” he replied. “What are you giving up?” Despite last year’s “God schedule“, I nearly forgot to plan anything for this coming season. There are a lot of things I’ve been meaning to do (not necessarily “putting off”…), so it was… Continue reading
And they said to him, “Inquire of God, we pray thee, that we may know whether the journey on which we are setting out will succeed.”
And the priest said to them, “Go in peace. The journey on which you go is under the eye of the LORD.”
—Judges 18:5–6