Dum Dulcedine- So Long Sweets

Lent. It's one of those things where people say that they are going to give up something. Kind of like new years resolutions, only religious. People give up facebook, texting, television, the computer as a whole, pop, or as I am doing, sweets. (mainly candy, cookies, cakes, ice cream- you know, the good stuff.) In chapel at school today we had Father Dennis from a church in GR. I was pumped to begin with just with the fact that I HAD to call this guy Father. It's like a rule. How good. But anyway, he talked about how the things that we give up for lent aren't always bad things, they can be good too! He mentioned that in the Catholic church, they give up meat for the 40 days of lent, except Fridays, when they eat fish. People can go to the church to get fish, then knowingly he said, "they all come to church for the halibut." You may not get this right away, but say 'halibut' out loud to yourself a couple times.If you're still missing it, the syllables, hal-i-but relate to the words hell-of-it, respectively, if you say them quickly, which is what that dear Father did. It was quite amusing and yes, I did continue to laugh to myself throughout the entire day. But back to my point, the things you give up for lent aren't necessarily bad; but you need to focus on how that changes what you are doing in some way. If you're giving up facebook, what are you doing with the time that you would have spent on the computer? If you're giving up sweets (ahem), what are you going to do with the money that you save from purchasing those delicious, but oh so unhealthy, morsels? So the moral of the story is, it's not what you give up, but how you use the time or resources that come from the giving up.