Good Friday
Lent is coming to an end. Unlike most Lenten seasons I didn't give anything up this year. I decided to do little things to make me a better person and hopefully make the world and God a little bit happier. I had six goals. I achieved five out of the six mostly. I am somewhat sad that the season is coming to an end.
I have had fun tracking my progress. There are two goals that I think have made me a more thoughtful person. The first goal was to pray daily. I know as a Christian/Catholic that this should be automatic, but it wasn't in my life and just taking those few minutes a day to be thankful to God for all that I have and to ask for his guidance in my life has been amazing. The second goal was working on being a kind and generous person. It made me look for ways each day to be nice to someone. I don't think I was a mean person before, but rather insular and wouldn't step outside my comfort zone to do that little extra that will make somebody else's day. I am sure that this Lent lessons are going to stay with me.
Completely off topic - I had a mid thirties crisis yesterday and ordered all of these books that I read as a kid off of Amazon.
"B" Is for Betsy, Back to School with Betsy, Betsy's Little Star, All-of-a-kind Family, Special Girl, and Bunnicula. The Betsy books bring me back to sitting in the library aisles at Glen View Elementary with Sue Shepard as the librarian. I remember my sister and I both being into these books at the same time - a little odd since my sister is four years older, but I always was precocious. All-of-a-kind Family made me want to be Jewish living in New York during the early 1900's. I wanted to celebrate Yom Kippur and make Purim baskets. This book has made me also want to be able to buy sweet potatoes from street vendors. I know bizarre.
Special Girl was a tween romance that made me want to be diabetic. Does anyone ever outgrow the need to be special/different? And then Bunnicula is the best book of all time. I mean what is there not to love about a vegetarian vampire?
I have had fun tracking my progress. There are two goals that I think have made me a more thoughtful person. The first goal was to pray daily. I know as a Christian/Catholic that this should be automatic, but it wasn't in my life and just taking those few minutes a day to be thankful to God for all that I have and to ask for his guidance in my life has been amazing. The second goal was working on being a kind and generous person. It made me look for ways each day to be nice to someone. I don't think I was a mean person before, but rather insular and wouldn't step outside my comfort zone to do that little extra that will make somebody else's day. I am sure that this Lent lessons are going to stay with me.
Completely off topic - I had a mid thirties crisis yesterday and ordered all of these books that I read as a kid off of Amazon.
"B" Is for Betsy, Back to School with Betsy, Betsy's Little Star, All-of-a-kind Family, Special Girl, and Bunnicula. The Betsy books bring me back to sitting in the library aisles at Glen View Elementary with Sue Shepard as the librarian. I remember my sister and I both being into these books at the same time - a little odd since my sister is four years older, but I always was precocious. All-of-a-kind Family made me want to be Jewish living in New York during the early 1900's. I wanted to celebrate Yom Kippur and make Purim baskets. This book has made me also want to be able to buy sweet potatoes from street vendors. I know bizarre.
Special Girl was a tween romance that made me want to be diabetic. Does anyone ever outgrow the need to be special/different? And then Bunnicula is the best book of all time. I mean what is there not to love about a vegetarian vampire?
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