Social media makes many of us prey to its powers of making us feel important. I fall into this myself, but rest assured that 90% of my posting of minutiae is meant to be ironic. Take, for example, my recent Instagram post of my bowl of oatmeal. Let's not talk about the fact that it took me 20 minutes to figure out how to get that Instagram picture on my blog. Okay? Okay. Anyway, during my time on social media for the seminary, last week I saw an incredible number of posts, articles, tweets, and the like that were questioning the idea of people giving things up for Lent OR questioning what they were giving up. The overarching trends were along the lines of "You shouldn't give up such a puny little thing for Jesus when 21 guys just got their heads cut off for him," "You shouldn't give stuff up for Lent because you're doing it for the wrong reasons ," and, my personal favorite, "Lent should be about taking on something instead of givin...
Thoughts on God between folding laundry and building cup towers