What Are You Giving Up for Lent?

March 3, 2011
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Pastor Steve Garnaas-Holmes writes,

Shrove Tuesday. Fat Tuesday. Mardi Gras. Pancakes. Today is one day to whoop it up and enjoy all the stuff you’re going to be repenting of for the next forty. Now is the time to get it out of your system.

But what, exactly? Does Mardi Gras suggest that it may be best to begin the Lenten season of repentance with a hangover and a sense of guilt for how you carried on yesterday? Besides the sugar, butter and milk you use in those pancakes on Fat Tuesday, besides the sweets you are about to give up for Lent, what is it, exactly, that you are getting out of your system? What are you really giving up?

Lent is a time of general repentance, of deeper discipline, of shedding things and turning to God, in preparation for Easter. But is there anything in particular that you feel the Spirit is leading you to repent of? When we ask, “What are you giving up for Lent?” we usually have something small and harmless in mind, like sweets— ignoring the actual sins that we should give up, not just for Lent but forever. Instead of giving up chocolate or Coke for Lent, we might try giving up wanting things our way, or being right, or thinking negative thoughts, or judging others or being fearful about money. Then Lent is a preparation not just for Easter but for a new life.

What is God leading you to give up, not just in Lent but for the rest of your life? Give that up for Lent. Today may not be the last time you do it, but by the grace of God it may be the last time you enjoy it. (Unfolding Light, February 24, 2009)

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What Are You Giving Up for Lent?

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