Happy Ash Wednesday, if that’s the proper greeting! Through a happy turn of events, I got to go to Church today! Well, we got to watch it on television, anyway.
It snowed overnight and kept snowing this morning. Once it stopped, my brother went out to finish shoveling the driveway, and I supervised.
By the the time he got done, it was too late for him to make it to Church, so I got to watch the service with him.
It was when Fr Carvajal started talking that I made an amazing discovery: did you know that “lint” and “Lent” are two different things? Wow, what a surprise! It threw me for a loop!
All this time, when my brother has talked about “giving up something for lint”, I thought he was going to replace something in his diet by eating lint. That’s so crazy I’m not even sure cats would do that, although hairballs are a close second.
Anyway, I don’t think Fr Carvajal is from the South, so I could tell when he spoke that there is a difference between “Lent” and “lint”. When it came time for us to bow our heads, it made me think of other things that might be different than I originally thought.
For example, did you know that there are “Dell” computers? We usually have Apple computers, so it made sense to me that there might be a Pickle computer brand. When my brother bought our MacBook, I thought he was telling me he chose it over a “Dill laptop”. Ha ha! That would be a sight to see! I am wondering what makes a computer a Kosher Dell, though.
I’m also wondering if my brother has been talking about the lint trap or if there is something called a Lent Trap. Maybe that’s when you give up something and then find out that you really like life better without it, so then you wonder if it really counts for Lent. My thought is that it does, and you’re also better off without it, so it’s a win-win! Maybe I’ll try to give up eating aluminum foil for Lent … next year!
Well, as we travel through Lent, I hope you can use this time to get an even clearer focus on things in the Bible. Maybe you can do something as simple as say things with a different accent. I know that was an eye-opener for me!
And let’s all give up lint for Lent! We sure wouldn’t want for it to build up and catch fire. That would be celebrating Ash Wednesday the hard way!