Giving up trying to give things up

From the Upper Room, RantMom's preferred devotional stream, for today:
Dear God,

Help us to encourage others to be part of the family of Christ by our living example.

OH DEAR. The Rant Family? The Family of Christ? A living Example? OH DEAR!

Here is the snippet of the day from Our Daily Bread, about an ordinary guy bearing witness without miracles:
http://odb.org/2012/02/22/an-ordinary-guy/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+odb%2Ffeed+%28Our+Daily+Bread%29


Giving things up for Lent has never really been part of RantWoman's spiritual practice. RantWoman is unclear why this custom was never much part of Rant Family practice. RantWoman realizes she should have attended to questions of what to give up days ago. That would mean RantWoman giving up procrastination. Uhhhh....

RantWoman lately has been reflecting on someone she knew in college. This administrator had gone to school in different countries at key points during her education. As a result, she did algebra in one language and trigonometry in another language. RantWoman spends a lot of her life on the frontiers between different streams of language, literally different idioms as well as the varying argot used by different professions and fields. RantWoman is acutely conscious that a torrent of thoughts keep welling up cast in the Feminazi Bitch subdialect. MOST of the time RantWoman manages either to season her comments, sometimes for months, or to filter them into sensible Quakerese. But RantWoman COULD give up trying to fine-tune her Feminazi < > Quakerese filter for Lent. Uhhhh....

RantWoman will be content with ashes from
http://gatheringinlight.com/2012/02/24/a-pile-of-ash/

God willing, RantWoman MIGHT even find things to free herself from...