So, I have been trying to come up with something to give up for Lent. I thought of a few but each one seemed to simple for the occasion, I mean how much of a sacrifice is it to give up pop while I have already been trying to cut down on it? I wanted something that would be meaningful, something that would actually be a sacrifice, and nothing I came up with seemed to meet my own internal standards of sacrifice. To that end I have decided that I would not give up anything for Lent, which isn't that big a deal really, Lenten sacrifice is not a part of my Church of God (Anderson, IN) faith tradition. I have occasionally given things up in the past decade or so, in truth more of a test for myself or a convenient excuse to give up something I wanted to give up in general.
But this year, for whatever reason, I am wanting to make some kind of sacrifice. Which led me to option number 2, which is doing something for Lent. This idea was first birthed in me by Mark Krenz about 9 years ago [gosh, am I really that old?] Mark challenged South Meridian's Youth to give up or start something for Lent. At the time I was writing song lyrics and I decided that during the 40 days of Lent I would write a lyric for each of the 150 Psalms, plus the apocryphal 151. I needed to write 3.775 songs a day, which I didn't always accomplish, some days I wrote fewer, some days I didn't write any, so by the last week I was averaging about 7 a day, but I did accomplish the task [whew].
But what to do this year? I had no clue, I am already reading the Bible for my Sunday morning job, so that was out. I could have decided to read a book a week, but reading with a 3 month old has been a little more difficult than I originally thought it would be. I just didn't know what to do, so I had again come to the conclusion to not do anything, until about 15 minutes ago. Mary wrote two blogs today, and a friend in New Zealand wrote a beautiful prayer as blog, and it got me thinking that I could kill two birds with one stone. I have been wanting to write more blogs, and haven't been giving it the time or energy I need to, and I want to do something for Lent.
BINGO, my goal for Lent is to write 40 blogs over the next 40 days. I am sure that some will be longer and some short. Some will be deep and a few might be a sentence or two of ridiculousness. Some will be sermons, or songs, or musings, or meaningless ramblings, but they will be mine and to a lesser degree yours. This Ash Wednesday I wear my cross on my heart and type it on my blog. May the sacrifice of my time, energy, and thought be pleasing to my savior friend, to my avid [or random] reader, and to my jar of clay.
Peace and Love,
Pastor K
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