What are you giving up for Ash Wednesday?
I went to church today, even though I don't usually go to church. I like Ash Wednesday. You don't have to be a Christian to be able to appreciate the power of letting yourself go and really trying hard to kick a bad habit, or to start a new one.
I realized today that there are a lot of ways that you could do wrong to someone, whether that's explicitly hurting them, or forgetting to do something, or not telling them something they should know or doing something for them that should be done for them. I'm giving up doing wrong for Ash Wednesday, which is a pretty impossible task, and even though I'm not expecting to be perfect, I'm certainly not going to give anything but my all.
I sometimes have to remind myself that just because I'm not happy, I shouldn't take away others' happiness. I should never do that ever, under any circumstances. That might actually be the definition of sin.
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