Day 1: the ability to give ‘it’ up.

Get your mind out of the gutter. My grandma has the link to this blog.

I am thankful for the ability to give it up. ‘It’ being what I can give up for Lent. I mean, let’s think about this. Here we all are; sitting around thinking about the abundance of things we have available to us, and evaluating which one would be the easiest or the most dramatic to give up for forty days. How many people can afford to give up things like meat or sweets? How many people have stable internet access to be able to give up Facebook or Pintrest? What about how we have the option to choose to participate in this religious activity, even if we aren't even Catholic? How we have the basic ability to choose whether or not we are Catholic? 

Think about that for a second. If that doesn't blow your mind and already make you feel like the luckiest kid alive, you need to get out. Go volunteer at the Soup Kitchen. Visit a homeless shelter. Go on a mission to rural Africa. Talk to a child in Russia.Or simply Google image starving children; whatever. The point is, you need to crawl out from under the rock of stability you've been living under and see how the rest of the world lives if you think you don't have enough.  

I sat in the car driving to my internship with Lizzy, and we talked about all the things we could give up. I sat there driving, in my nice car, wearing clean clothes, to an internship I have through my big fancy college education, talking about all the excess things I have at my disposal.

It’s pretty incredible that I even had the ability to start this blog.

It’s pretty incredible you’re able to read it.

Like I said; if you don’t feel like the luckiest kid alive, you need to get out more.