Lent

So I know lent is like almost over, at least 1/2 over...I want to talk about the end that we are all coming to. Now we all gave some thing up probably. And at the end of Lent we will prob. eat, drink, listen to, do...Whatever we gave up...There is nothing wrong if you gave up eating meat all lent to have a big strip steak at the end. But that isn't what lent is about. It isn't about arbitrarily giving up meat not realizing what and why you are doing it and having a full rack of ribs. It is about realizing the sacrifice.  I gave up listening to Bob Rice... mostly because people don't think I can do it, and I didn't really know if I could do it. Since I do Play him a lot during Life Teen, but a lot of that is because When I was making WMV's that is what I had that I could find. So most of it is because of a dare, and a lot of it is because it is a challenge. I also want(ed) to get past my personal stuff, and become a lot more organized...This has been the biggest challenge(giving up b-r) and now it is starting to get to me....I want to listen to and praise to Bob Rice I want to worship to Bob Rice...But Christ died and so I made the sacrifice to not listen to my favorite artist. At the end of Lent I will be more grateful and my musical horizons opened...this doesn't mean I won't play him during praise and worship through lent...because that is 1 a Sunday, and 2 It isn't exactly just for me...but for the group (i.e. Days of Elijah)...It hasn't been at all easy and Not fasting on the Annunciation didn't help. But it was a major feast day and He had a new song on his blog that just rocked and fit so well into what I was feeling during lent. It made me really want to listen to him
:(...there are just 3 more weeks, and I am sure it is going to challege me but that is not even a drop in the bucket compared to what Christ did on the cross.