This is something worth doing, but if you don't give up sweets how does it help you get into heaven?
Lent
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This is something worth doing, but if you don't give up sweets how does it help you get into heaven?
Last night was perfect. I'm giving up alcohol for Lent and a fat Tuesday game against Baylor happens this year. Then stupid me goes and gets the stomach flu which basically means I have no strength, no energy, no no desire to come near alcohol for the last time in 6 weeks. Sucks.
First year I gave up alcohol I lost 15 pounds like nothing. I don't think it was the booze calories but rather the 2 AM Hardees runs and entire boxes of Cheez-its that were the problem.
We get to Vegas late Friday nights and always make sure to just eat at Earl of Sandwich at Planet Hollywood after midnight so we don't break any rules!
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My step daughter has a friend that died unexpectedly in high school. This girl donated her organs. There is a guy in Chicago that got her lungs and we got to meet him. He does the climb every year and formed a group called "Kari's Climbers".
A bunch of Kari's high school friends get together every year for this climb. This guy needed another organ about 15 months ago and another friend of Kari's match him and donated a kidney to him.
It has become much more than a climb to us!
A bunch of Kari's high school friends get together every year for this climb. This guy needed another organ about 15 months ago and another friend of Kari's match him and donated a kidney to him.
It has become much more than a climb to us!
I'm saying you are taking on a worthy cause. I wish more people would donate time or money than just giving up a personal vice.
If you're interested in checking out different churches in the IC area, I'd recommend Veritas. I think you'd like it based on your comments.
Http://veritascommunity.org
Thanks for the recommendation...and without turning this more personal/political...If people find faith thru that community, great, but when I clicked on the 'about' tab and saw 'cornerstone church' and 'salt company'...no thanks. If it's your thing, that's fine...not mine. The people I knew in salt company in Ames during my time were the only people more focused on spiritual theatrics than catholics. Putting up a front of holiness while hiding their true ways.
Yes, he does. For an article on fasting that'll blow your mind, check out this one from a few years ago.
Starving Your Way to Vigor
Giving up booze yet again. I'm pretty good at drinking beer the rest of the year, so this is the period of time that my liver gets to recuperate.
As an old-school, but non-practicing Catholic, I do give up meat on Fridays. I cook a good, healthy fish-bread-vegetable meal every Friday of Lent. It's not a big sacrifice, to be sure. But it helps me to think about the season, and the way I should try to live my life.
yep, it's probably more of that, hmmmm, let's get ice cream! after I've been drinking that causes more problems.
Ice cream would be one of the last things I would eat after drinking. When I've had something to drink, I hear a voice ask, "How about some cheese and crackers?"
If we ever had cheese and cracker around, I'd probably go after those too. Well, nice block cheese. Popcorn is something else that is delicious with rum.
I will be giving up nothing. And eating meat throughout lent, because well, I just don't care to start attending church, and think lent in itself, is just silly.
