Sacrilege?

I am reluctant to admit this but Ash Wednesday and Lent completely snuck up on me this year and all over Facebook are people talking about getting their ashes done and what they’re giving up for Lent.  I usually need some time to really think about what I can deal with giving up versus what I should give up and where they overlap.  In the past I have given up chocolate and ice cream but I always knew that I was really just treating Lent like some kind of diet plan and that wasn’t really the point.  So last year I decided to give up saying bad things about my friends, which I had noticed I was doing a lot, and I thought that that was a) a nice quantifiable thing that I could keep track of, and b) also something that would better myself and make me more Christian.

This year as I said it snuck up on me and, not willing to make a sudden deal to give up refined sugar or diet Coke for the next 40 days, I thought I’d just skip it this year.  Then I thought, why not give up fighting with Drew?  So I asked him what he thought, and he agreed that would be a great thing for me to give up.  I told him he had to give up fighting with me too.  He asked, But what if I’m right about something?  I said, Then we have to discuss it like grown-ups.

So here goes, 40 days of not fighting.