This month Christians and other Deity devoted denominations
began celebrating Lent. Traditionally, Lent is the forty days
before Easter. It is symbolic of the Biblical account of Jesus’
journey into the wilderness to fast and pray for forty days in
preparation for His temptations by the Devil, His suffering in
the garden of Gethsemane, His cruel crucifixion and His exalted
resurrection; which also leads us to the celebration we know as
Easter. During Lent a person will choose to give up something of
significant value in their lives--or something that may not
really be valuable, but which a person has placed a value on. It
is a personal and usually private sacrifice not only to increase
piety, but to remind oneself that to truly live a more excellent
life there are things that must be chosen to be left behind to
achieve it--bad habits, sweets, laziness, poisonous people,
places and patterns that are unhealthy and unworthy of our time
and energy. They choose to sacrifice them, at least for forty
days, so they c