Lent

"Lent is the season for the experience of giving your life over -- in each moment, bodily, deliberately, to Christ and to what the Spirit is showing you. God wants you to surrender yourself, and let the Spirit work in you. In Lent, we take responsibility for our acts and thoughts, and treat certain of those as the killers they are. Lent is self-discovery of the parts of ourselves we don't want to discover, through prayer, fasting, and other disciplines. It is the opening up, the turning over to God, the repenting of our sins, the turning away from that which does not please God. Yet there is just a glimpse of Easter through the heavy clouds of Good Friday -- that Christ has taken the burden, and you don't have to carry it anymore. Don't you want to follow that kind of a God?"

I know that I am not Catholic but I think that it is a very cool concept to give up something for 40 days and 40 nights. I think that if I can do it that long I can break the habit. So for Lent this year I am going to give up soda pop and lower my intake of sugar. Tyler is going to give up candy! So we will see how we do! Good luck to anyone else who is going to be giving up anything!
And on another note I am going to make a goal for these 40 days to make sure that I walk everyday. I have been slacking lately and I think that this will help get me back on the walking wagon!