Given these feelings it seems appropriate that Lent is practically upon us. If you're unfamiliar with Lent, it is a Christian season that starts at Ash Wednesday and ends Easter Sunday (or from February 22 to April 8 this year). One traditional feature of Lent includes Christians giving up or starting a practice that will help them refocus their thoughts on God.
I've never been very good at reflecting at what things I need to eliminate from my spiritual walk, but I know what I need to start doing again - reading my Bible and praying. Although the pair seems like it should be a basic staple, I simply just haven't done well keeping up with it on a regular basis since I started my teaching job. So everyday for Lent, I'm going to read my Bible for 20 minutes and pray for 10 minutes. Some days I might do more, but I'll never do less. To help keep myself committed, I'll periodically post my readings, a few thoughts, and some of my prayers.
If you feel inclined to share what you're doing for Lent, I'd love to hear about it, as well as pray for you throughout this new season.
Two things that consistently hinder my walk tend to be deficiencies in sleep and in structured time (and actually, I mean structured time in general, not just whether or not I have a specific time to read the Bible and pray), so I want to improve both, but am still figuring out in what ways I'm doing so. Likely I'll self-impose some internet-use restrictions again, but I remember from last time that there are plenty of other ways for me to distract myself from getting enough sleep or doing the things I need to do, so I'm still mulling my strategy over. (But I'd better decide soon, huh?)
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