Lent

For all my fellow Christians out there, we all know that Lent has finally started.  Lent is a somber time of prayer, penance, and sacrifice for the preparation of Easter (aka Jesus’ resurrection). Many Christians give up a bad habit or pick up a good that they would like to start doing for Lent. Personally, I have always given up the classic ‘no junk food.’ This year, I wanted to challenge myself a bit more so I am sharing what I am giving up (or picking up) for Lent (yes, I know I’m a couple of days late) and hopefully inspire others to challenge themselves this year.  

1.   No junk food

Ha! Like I said above, I always give junk food up! This year, I want to try to give it up and kick it for good (with an occasional binge eating marathon while watching Criminal Minds with my mom). I always look at Lent as a “resolution” time in hopes that I’ll be strong enough to keep away from bad things longer than 40 days.

2.   Workout everyday

Another “resolution” of mine is to start working out every day and hopefully keep at it after the 40 days are up because the Man upstairs knows I've been slacking in the physical activity department.

3.   Only 1 hour of TV a day

For a while, I have noticed that I watch A LOT of TV. Since Ash Wednesday, I have been having withdrawals from morning Criminal Minds marathons and afternoon Blue Bloods marathons. It’s been hard but I’m finally getting used to it! I have also noticed my productivity slightly increase.

4.   Start (and finish) YouCat

Before I graduated high school, I was given a book called ‘YouCat’ from my Diocesan Youth Council Director. I have yet to start it and I graduated in 2012 (sorry, Steven). This Lenten season, I am determined to start and finish that super cool book!

5.   Pray everyday

I already do pray every day but I want to start praying deeper and deepen my relationship with God. I have had some struggles the past couple of years keeping up my relationship with God and having faith in Him so I want to strengthen my faith again by actively praying.

Yes, I know I listed some pretty basic things but I wanted to keep you interested and hopefully you can challenge yourself to giving up more than one thing this Lent. I will give updates how I am doing! Please feel free to comment what you are giving up!