Give Up Something Significant For Lent

[URA]

Hello, all. I want to make Lent this year something significant, something far more powerful than the usual no beer, no chocolate, no TV, something like that. While these sacrifices, properly done, certainly do help us come closer to God, I want to do something better, something lasting.
Here's a few ideas, of sacrifices & additional tasks, that I've tossed around for this Lent:
--30 minutes a day in the Bible
--Give up negative thoughts
--30 minutes a day writing (it's an underused gift He gave me)
--Write a thank-you card a day to 40 people who have left a positive impact in my life

I'm not sure what to do, and of course I have time to figure it out with God, but I wanted input from all of you cool people in Internetland.

 

[Michie]

Volunteer at your local mission or a nursing home.

 

[Goatee]

Give up sinning for 40 days!

 

[Glaucus]

Give up sinning for 40 days!

There's a serious problem if one gives up sinning only at Lent.

 

[Goatee]

There's a serious problem if one gives up sinning only at Lent.

Not if one is apt to regular sinning! It could be a great boost to giving up permanently!

 

[AvilaSurfer]

Not if one is apt to regular sinning! It could be a great boost to giving up permanently!

Yeah that’s obvious. But then there wouldn’t be anything to complain about!

 

[Catherineanne]

Hello, all. I want to make Lent this year something significant, something far more powerful than the usual no beer, no chocolate, no TV, something like that. While these sacrifices, properly done, certainly do help us come closer to God, I want to do something better, something lasting.
Here's a few ideas, of sacrifices & additional tasks, that I've tossed around for this Lent:
--30 minutes a day in the Bible
--Give up negative thoughts
--30 minutes a day writing (it's an underused gift He gave me)
--Write a thank-you card a day to 40 people who have left a positive impact in my life

I'm not sure what to do, and of course I have time to figure it out with God, but I wanted input from all of you cool people in Internetland.

One year I gave up being critical and argumentative; I stopped arguing and tried to be conciliatory and accommodating.

That year I was thrown out of my church; I was told I upset too many people.

No good deed goes unpunished.