Things I've done besides watch TV and eat fast food during Lent

• spent more active time with my family
• initiated the after-dinner walk around the block (as opposed to the initiating after-dinner get-the-kids-to-bed-quickly-so-I-can-watch-Dancing-with-the-Stars-uninterrupted)
• read about half of The Love Dare (it's been hard to pick back up since our family had the Black Death)
• listened to the Lord answer my prayers rather than just constantly talking His ear off
• begun (a little bit) to embrace the dawn rather than hide from it under the covers
• invited a friend and her daughter over for a playdate and actually made my house look nice for them rather than watching TV until five minutes before they arrived
• decided (in obedience to God's prayer-answering) to quit my job completely rather than simply taking a smaller role
• begun writing a Sunday school curriculum for our kids at church
• discussed all eleventy-billion outreach ideas I have for St. Mike's with our deacon
• received (and responded to) with a thankful heart, a letter from a long-lost friend
• lost weight
• had more energy (most days)
• helped my family recover from the Black Death
• begun a new one-room-a-week system of house cleaning
• accidentally made my mother cry as we talked about spiritual things and she relived old hurts received at the hands of a church we no longer attend
• done a more effective job of meal planning
  
• blogged more often, like so
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