What Are You Giving Up For Lent?

What about not eating breakfast?

*Looks at gut.*

Nevermind, that doesn't help.

 

Strict Catholics grew up not eating meat on Fridays year round.

 

Are you visiting or did you make the move to their house? Aren't they in Houston?

 

Yup. I've moved to their house. Can't afford to live on my own anymore.

 

As a favor to my BBS friends, I hereby promise that the liquor you gave up for Lent will not go to waste!

 

I'm nazarene.....i'm giving up carbonated beverages

 

Well now that you are in Houston you need to come out to some of the hoop-it ups that we have. Or you can come play ultimate frisbee the next time we play man.

 

I gave up such things for Lent 2 years ago. The following year, thinking it was a decent thing to do, I was going to do it again, and the Mrs told me she would rather me drink 40 days straight as I am much easier to get along with when I do, so.....

 

I'm totally down with a bball game. I've been itching to play for a while now. My former coworkers all got lazy and stopped playing over a year ago!

Never played ultimate frisbee, but it sounds like fun!

 

I'm sure the job market in Houston is better than Austin right now...too many UT grads with computer science degrees that will work for slave wages running around up there...

 

I'm giving up religion.

 

soft p*rn

 

I gave up tv one year. It was a b*stard, but I did it completely. If a tv was on, I'd turn my head. Most likely, never again.

 

I haven't fully decided, but I'm likely going to give up Alcohol and maybe something else. Rather than just giving something up, I'm also going to try to be proactive and DO something positive for lent as well. Try to pray more, do more volunteer work, be a better person.

I thought about trying to give up the internet, because that's really my biggest "addiction", but I don't think I can reasonably do that -- I need the internet for so much that it would be kindof like saying "you can't drive during lent". That would really put a big kink in things . . .

 

Does that include sports? You didn't watch sports on TV for one full year???

Either you are crazy or the strongest (will power-wise) man I've ever heard of!

 

I think he meant that one year, he gave up tv for forty days.

 

I think by one year, he meant one year for lent.

 

Still... 40 days without TV! I can't fathom it.

I would literally twitch myself to death if I went 40 days without televised sports. I can't picture a worse torture!

Props to ya man!

 

Especially during Lent. No March Madness!!!!

Horrible.

I could give it a try from like late-June to early-August, but I wouldn't last more than 3 hours.

 

awesome! lent is ultimately a great deal about introspection...realizing where we fall short. humility in prayer is definitely in order!