Fat Tuesday

I think the evolution of Fat Tuesday is funny and so typically human. Lent is a time of giving something up and Fat Tuesday is a celebration of one last gorging before I give it up. How many things we should give up are not just because we are just not ready to give it up. We need just one more hurrah, one more jolly before we give up our vice. I do think we have concentrated too much on giving things up for Lent and not enough on taking up good habits. It is not only the giving up of doing vices but also the doing of good. I hope I am not sounding too law oriented and a pietist. AS Christian, our salvation is dependent on Christ and not on our our good works. However, that does not give a free pass to sit on our comfortable little behinds and do nothing. The Christian walk is full of struggle and strife and our failings. God picks us up to continue. Everything we do for God is due to God's power and might. May we keep our eyes on him, the Keeper and Perfecter 0f 0ur faith.