Every year when Lent comes back around I have trouble deciding what I should be giving up.

Do I give up some food ?

Do I give up a vice? (I have just about given up all of them already! Time seems to have done that!)

Well, this year I have decided to give up feeling sad. No more wishing my kids were here. No more wishing my parents were still around. No more wishing I hadn’t sold my business. The list goes on and on.

Now I plan to take on happy projects. Things that fulfill me.

Now I have to decide just what the projects will be. I guess I should increase my participation at Church. That’ll do it!

-Ed Boutwell