Woot!
As I'm chewing on my apple--choice #5 today--I thought I'd write and tell you about the new challenge. Ready? Okay. First a little background.
The main celebration of my faith is Easter: the time when Christians celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ from death to life. Prior to that celebration, we observe a time called Lent. Lent is the 40 days (not including Sundays) leading up to Easter. During Lent, some Christians attempt a new habit--usually involving denial of some sort but not always.
I grew up Southern Baptist in a time when many Southern Baptists did not recognize the church calendar much--except for Easter, Christmas, and for some, Advent. So participating in Lent is new to me. For only the last six years, since I've been in a more liturgical (fancy word that sort of means "relating to formal worship") church have I entertained the idea of really observing Lent.
In high school, I was very familiar with Lent. My best friend was Lutheran. He always gave up sweets for Lent. (I thought he was crazy.) Every year he did this--and probably still does (married a Catholic don't cha know). Amazed me. Well, and baffled me too.
These days, I make an attempt at keeping Lent as well. (I tried giving up sweets--didn't work so well.) But, I have made a decision about this year's Lenten challenge.
I'm giving up not eating 5 fruits and veggies daily. That is, from now until Easter, I'm commiting to making 5-a-day my priority. Will you join me on the journey? We'll be travelling together for about 5 weeks. Are you in?
Decreasing excuses,
Aileen
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I will certainly try it with you! I think I'll start tomorrow, though, because last night was the lock-in and I had nothing but sweets =[ I feel really bad now!
ReplyDeleteI stayed up till 4:30, got woken up at 7:30, came home at 8:30, and said hi and bye. Then I went upstairs and slept till 11:30 =] That was really nice!
We drew on these kids. It was really fun. I colored this guy Wyatt's ankles so they were bright red and someone wrote a J on Josh's cheek. Then we covered Wyatt in tissues and Josh in popcorn! It was awesome. I love the lock-in =]
Love,
~Emma~