What are you giving up for Lent?!?
What are you giving up for Lent?!?
#0What are you giving up for Lent?!?
Posted: 2/21/06 at 12:15pm
As some of you know, Lent begins one week from tomorrow on March 1. Have you given any thought to what you will give up?
My pastor suggested that I give up Tivo. I suggested to her that God does not want me to suffer that much during this penitential season.
I considered giving up alcohol. However, I start rehearsals for ANGELS IN AMERICA in the middle of Lent, so I know that discipline will last until day one of rehearsals.
The other option is giving up the Internet for everything except e-mail and work purposes, but I think that will just make me drink more.
"I am open, and I am willing,
For to be hopeless would seem so strange.
It dishonors those who go before us,
So lift me up to the light of change."
Holly Near
#1re: What are you giving up for Lent?!?
Posted: 2/21/06 at 12:21pmI think this year..I'm giving up Lent.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
DramaDork925
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#2re: What are you giving up for Lent?!?
Posted: 2/21/06 at 12:22pmEverytime Lent rolls around I tell my mom I want to give up the pursuit of knowledge (ie: School)... she doesn't find it funny.
Am I cut out to spend my time this way?
#3re: What are you giving up for Lent?!?
Posted: 2/21/06 at 12:23pmI may give up pop. But I don't like the giving something up. I would rather do something extra that does something for others. I don't know what though.
#4re: What are you giving up for Lent?!?
Posted: 2/21/06 at 12:24pmYeah. Nothing. We only give up red meat on Fridays.
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#5re: What are you giving up for Lent?!?
Posted: 2/21/06 at 12:27pmhttp://ship-of-fools.com/Features/frameit.htm?0202/Lent.html
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#6re: What are you giving up for Lent?!?
Posted: 2/21/06 at 12:30pmI think I'm giving up skipping class. I just don't feel bad about missing classes these days, so I figure this should give me the motivation I don't have and really need.
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Wanting life but never knowing how
#7re: What are you giving up for Lent?!?
Posted: 2/21/06 at 12:35pmI'm giving up headcheese sandwiches.
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#8re: What are you giving up for Lent?!?
Posted: 2/21/06 at 12:39pmI'm giving up being nice to Liam.
"Long live God!" (GODSPELL)
#9re: What are you giving up for Lent?!?
Posted: 2/21/06 at 12:58pm
caitiesus1522, I usually try to do that as well, and it is something my church encourages.
touchme, thanks for that link! It has some good ideas, so I forwarded it to our worship team!
"I am open, and I am willing,
For to be hopeless would seem so strange.
It dishonors those who go before us,
So lift me up to the light of change."
Holly Near
#10re: What are you giving up for Lent?!?
Posted: 2/21/06 at 1:03pmFor the 21st consecutive year, I will be giving up lent as well.
"If you are going to do something, do it well. And leave something witchy."
-Charlie Manson
#11re: What are you giving up for Lent?!?
Posted: 2/21/06 at 1:04pm
I was going to give up sex but then I realized that my streak of inadvertant celibacy has been going on for so long that if the opportunity comes up there's no way my a$$ is turning it down.
#12re: What are you giving up for Lent?!?
Posted: 2/21/06 at 1:10pm
Then again, if the opportunity never comes up, you can always claim after the fact that you gave up sex for Lent. Just to make yourself feel better 
Like a firework unexploded
Wanting life but never knowing how
Wanting life but never knowing how
#13re: What are you giving up for Lent?!?
Posted: 2/21/06 at 1:12pmevery year i say i'm going to give up something, but i never do... maybe i'll try to come up with something this year
::bust a move::
#14re: What are you giving up for Lent?!?
Posted: 2/21/06 at 1:12pmExactly. And since I'm a recovering Catholic and not a practicing one, the guilt will be minimal.
#15re: What are you giving up for Lent?!?
Posted: 2/21/06 at 1:27pmI think i'll give up skipping classes too.. we'll see how long that'll last.
#16re: What are you giving up for Lent?!?
Posted: 2/21/06 at 1:33pmChocolate and carbonated soft drinks.
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DramaDork925
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#17re: What are you giving up for Lent?!?
Posted: 2/21/06 at 1:37pmDollypop- Have you been counting down the days til Lent?
Am I cut out to spend my time this way?
#18re: What are you giving up for Lent?!?
Posted: 2/21/06 at 2:01pm
One year I gave up pop. Then I realized I'm not catholic and no one really cares if a baptist gives anything up. 
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#19re: What are you giving up for Lent?!?
Posted: 2/21/06 at 2:10pmWhoa, that link was way too religious for me. More power to those who do that stuff though.
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