What are you doing for Lent? **QUICKIE**

In Lent, it's traditional to give up (or 'fast from') something(s) that we do a lot of and that we find pleasure in. This giving up or fasting is done:

*as a discipline for learning self-control, to free our minds from the chase after material things, to tell ourselves 'no' and make it stick; *to identify with Christ's sufferings, and remember what the true pleasures are for followers of Christ; *as an act of sorrow over our wrongdoings and our state of sin.

Lent is not all about giving things up. It's also about adding good things to our lives or to others' lives -- the kind of good things that follow on what Jesus asks of us, especially that which relates to what we're giving up.

Are you giving something up for Lent? Doing something good for yourself or others? Tell your partner all about it in a letter! This will be a good way to get your sacrifice "out there" and meybe it will be a little easier to stick to. This will be a quickie swap, so sign up and start writing! Partners will be assigned as soon as the swap closes.