So here's the thing about Lent.
You make these promises and commitments and you think when you are doing it you know which ones you are going to have trouble with. I knew that I wouldn't have too much trouble eating an orange every day... I thought I might have trouble reading gospels or studying Tom Wright but what I didn't realise was that I am totally addicted to listening to the radio in the car.
So much so that this morning I was driving my son to the station and I discovered that the radio had somehow or other mysteriously switched itself on... obviously I thought my son had done this.
But no! Apparently I switched it on without thinking.
I know it's not a big deal but I do wonder how much else I do without thinking.
The point is that I have discovered that when I don't switch the radio on without thinking... I do a lot more thinking!
There a circle here that Lent is helping me break: because I listen to the radio I don't think and so because I don't think, I listen to the radio.
The aspiration to lose weight is also not going well after a baptism visit yielded a very large and yummy piece of chocolate cake which I just had to eat because:
a) it was yummy and
b) was obviously a special treat made just for the occasion which it would have been rude to refuse.
It's hard being a vicar in Lent...
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