lenten report

In an hour or so I drive north to share the Easter Vigil with friends at St. Francis in the Redwoods, Willits.

So how did I do with my lenten tasks?

On hoarding, bringing food into the house I do better without, I did pretty well - except for one break down when I bought a pint of ice cream. Oh well, at least it was just a pint, which meant I didn't hoard it for long. A number of times I stopped myself when in a store and seeing a good buy, thinking "Oh - better stock up on that." And said to myself (let's hope it was to myself and I haven't become one of the market mutterers) "But you don't need it in the first place." I also learned that you can find a way to get today's chocolate most any day.

Same with eating in the car. I had just one little breakdown - of my discipline, not the car - and I can't remember now when or where. I do think I've quit this habit. It is just so much better to eat at a table, or even, on long drives, beside the road. It's a much more mindful and thankful, as opposed to compulsive, way of eating. And one tends to have more wholesome things. Things that require two hands. Of course, I do have water in the car.