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Totally Crushing the Giving it Up for Lent Game
You don’t need to be religious to play
Forget giving up something precious to you for Lent this year. Haven’t we all already given up enough? This year give up all the things you don’t like anyway. Dusting for example. Why not give up dusting?
Covid 19 exploded onto the awareness of the western world during the liturgical season of Lent in 2020. “I sure didn’t expect to be giving up going to church for Lent,” was the hottest church joke in town.
Despite Trump’s assurances that this whole thing would be gone by Easter 2020, we have rolled all the way around to another Ash Wednesday with a world still rocked to its core by Covid restrictions and chaos.
This year I’m going to follow the example set for me by my daughter when she was three and discovered Lent for the first time.
A preschooler’s take on Lent
“Mommy, what am I giving up for Lent?” my daughter asked as we drove to our Music and Movement Class.
“Nothing,” I said surprised. “We don’t really give things up for Lent in our family.”
“Trixie says I have to give up something for Lent. If you don’t give something up it means you don’t love Jesus.” Trixie lived next door and being almost two…
