"Lent"

There’s a great old tradition in the Catholic church.  Lent.

It’s where you give up something for the weeks before Easter. 

Lots of other religions have similar practices.

Maybe it’s candy, or cocktails, or desserts, or cigarettes, or soda, or watching some idiot, mind-rotting TV series, or french fries or bread.  Could be anything.

You end up feeling better.  You feel like you stuck to something and did it.  And, sometimes, you give up something that you might end up giving up long after Lent is over.

One of my favorite moronic movies was Kicking and Screaming with Will Ferrill – it’s where he’s an obnoxious coach of a little girls’ soccer team.  He has an epiphany and changes his ways, and gets his team of little girls around him in a huddle at their big game.  His words of advice are, “Whatever I told you before – do the opposite.”

Maybe that’s the trick.  Instead of taking something away from our lives – we add something.

Maybe it’s adding something that makes our world a better place.

Ma…