Wednesday, April 13

Jean Whitney
Deacon
As a teen-ager, I was caught up with the idea of "giving up" something for Letn. My friends were giving up desserts, chocolate, movies, and other guilty pleasures.
     I talked a lot about what I would choose to give up—this? that?
     Quite quietly, my father suggested that instead of "giving up", he planned to "take on" for Lent—extra reading, additional reflection, some "good work".
     Years later, every Lenten season, I still recall those choices, that conversation.