Nothing To Give Up

During Lent we spend a lot of time talking and thinking about the sacrifice we make for forty days. “What did you give up for Lent?” is probably the most common subject at cocktail parties during the Lenten season, even more so than one’s neighbor’s cosmetic surgery or new car. The funny part of this whole sacrifice thing is very little is ever mentioned about those who have nothing to give up for Lent. Their whole life is a sacrifice working for wages below what they can live on so the rest of us can live life that enable us to give up a little for forty days.

During Lent we also are supposed to spend more time talking to God. Consider talking to God about those who have nothing to give up and what you can do about it. I think God would enjoy that conversation.

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Webb Hubbell is the former Associate Attorney General of The United States. His novels, When Men Betray, Ginger Snaps, A Game of Inches, The Eighteenth Green, and The East End are published by Beaufort Books and are available online or at your local bookstore. When Men Betray won one of the IndieFab awards for best novel in 2014. Ginger Snaps and The Eighteenth Green won the IPPY Awards Gold Medal for best suspense/thriller. His latest, “Light of Day” will be on the bookstands soon.