The minutes are ticking down to my favorite time of year - that spiritual boot camp for the soul called LENT!
Every year I make a huge list of daily activities for Lent. It usually looks like this: daily Mass, daily Rosary, daily spiritual reading, weekly Stations, no coffee, no cola, etc. I can actually sustain this....for about 3 days.
But Laura inspired this great idea - fill a bowl with slips of paper with different Lenten activities written on them. Each day pick one or two. I think I will have a very well -rounded Lent if I do this.
I will throw a dried bean in a jar for each activity engaged in and hopefully by Good Friday I will have enough to make a dinner with the beans.
I am also giving up my daily $3 latte. I am getting hives and palpitations just thinking about it. However, the $120 I am going to save will be much appreciated by the charity I am going to donate it to.
Well, off to eat a nice meaty dinner, run to the store for some bean soup for tomorrows lunch and then I will enjoy my Boston cream donut - mmmmmmmmm!
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