I beamed with pride as I lasted the full 40+ days (including the Sundays) giving up the things I loved as a show of piety. I started as many of us do, by giving up things like chocolate and soda. It was my way of earning God’s love.Īnd as an intense child, I was equally intense with my Lenten disciplines. The spiritual disciplines of Lent allowed me to prove to myself and others that I was worthy of calling myself a Christian. I loved it for the opportunity to prove myself.
My mother called me her “serious one”, and while I reveled in the joys of Christmas and Easter, as soon as I started to understand what Lent was, I loved it. I was a child who took everything far too seriously there are more pictures of young Slats staring intently at something than pictures of me laughing or smiling. If you are who you say you are, prove it.
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