So Lent Is Almost Over

When Lent began, I asked myself how I would ever make it through without fast food.  Now, I find that I don't really desire it any longer (except a Papa Johns pizza, which I only ate once every four or five months anyhow).  When I first began this Lenten journey, I was amazed at the idea that some espoused, that not eating fast food would be a discipline and that it would help with others. 

I thought those folks were wrong, but I am here today to say that I was the one who was incorrect.  It has helped me to discipline myself in other things that I did to excess.  It has helped me to eat, moderately, healthier.  And I have lost weight.  My belt no longer pulls tight enough to keep my pants from hanging off of me a bit.  I had to be weighed for the first time in a year last week, while sick.  I was at 306 pounds...but before I binged for a year of fast food for every meal, I was over 320 and I know all my fast food since summer was easily 20 pounds.  I've lost at least 30 pounds this Lent...which is amazing to me.

I've also been sick this Lent.  I developed a bad case of sinusitus and spent a week medicated and on my couch.  It gave me a lot of time to reflect on things, because I couldn't do any homework at the time.  That said, I can't remember them now.  I know at the time they seemed to be great things, and I know part of it dealt with today's anniversary of the death of Dr. King.

Anyhow, today we begin the Triduum.  Tonight, we remember how Christ was betrayed by Judas Iscariot following the Last Supper.  Tomorrow, we recall His Passion and Crucifixion.  Saturday and Sunday we celebrate the end of Lent and the rising of the Christ, His defeat of death.  And for that, I leave you with Matt Maher's excellent Easter song and I'll see you all after Triduum: