Everything that I *would* normally “give up for Lent” has already been taken from it:
- I hardly eat red meats any more, despite loving steak and burgers with unrequited passion.
- I can’t drink alcohol any more, despite loving hefeweisen, stouts, and blackbier. Alcohol, chemo meds, and cancer symptoms/effects aren’t exactly compatible.
- Many of my “bad habits” were made possible by getting out, being social, being worldly. I’ve been housebound for two years now. Really the only thing I could give up is Social Media?
…so I’ll need to reflect some more on what my faith means to me, how I might best serve others as a human being and a follower of Christ, and how I might better practice basic human compassion, charity, and almsgiving?
I do have to say, I see precious little “basic human compassion, charity, and almsgiving” on Facebook and Twitter.
If people had to give up egoism, spite, materialism, self-import, how many of us could sit in Christ’s company and be without some need to remove the timber from our own eye before correcting someone else to remove the mote from their eye? 💕🤔
With much love and respect,
~ Ken