by the way, one of my promises for lent is to blog every day. we'll see which lasts longer - not eating until sundown or blogging every day.
many have asked why i celebrate lent - why sacrifice? why set your self aside? what is to be gained? here are buechner's words:
In many cultures there is an ancient custom of giving a tenth of each year's income to some holy use. For Christians, to observe the forty days of Lent is to do the same thing with roughly a tenth of each year's days. After being baptized by John in the river Jordan, Jesus went off alone into the wilderness where he spent forty days asking himself the question what it meant to be Jesus. During Lent, Christians are supposed to ask one way or another what it means to be themselves.i sacrifice what matters to me to find out what makes me me. am i my possessions? my appetites? my time? where do i find my identity? Lent forces us to strip away what we sometimes think of ourselves and face what really lies there beneath. at least that's what is supposed to happen. the problem is, we become too focused on finding out what it means to be ourselves and we lose sight of the fact that ultimately it's not ourselves who are most important.
...To hear yourself try to answer questions like these is to begin to hear something not only of who you are but of both what you are becoming and what you are failing to become. It can be a pretty depressing business all in all, but if sackcloth and ashes are at the start of it, something like Easter may be at the end.
need to run out and get some stuff for this weekend - basics like underwear/undershirts/vitamins, etc. i might do some grocery shopping but fasting all day has made me hungry and i'm afraid of what i would buy. don't want to spend too much time out and about - still feeling really tired.
just checked the academic team standings - mason ended up tied for second record-wise, but should end up third in the standings since we lost twice to lakota east and beat lakota west twice. this bodes well for our tournament. tournament starts at 1:00 on saturday - the championship round is supposed to be at 4:30. here's hoping for an excellent showing, though we'll be down our literature expert. but i don't think it will hurt us too much.
oh and for those who are far away, i am once again beardless for the play. and my hair is quite short. i joked yesterday that i had given up being hairy for lent. but i guess i'm not completely sold out because i didn't shave my head. i don't have the head to be bald. would not be good for anyone. it's times like these that i wish i had a camera so i could upload pics. there will be pics from the show, so you can see what i look like as a nun. i'll link to them as soon as i know they're available.
ok, time to get the necessities. that's two days straight writing. here's hoping i don't slack off.
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