Every year at this time I see lots of articles on blogs and Catholic sites with titles like “25 Things You Can Give Up for Lent” or “Creative Things to Do for Lent” and around the same time some of my friends will declare (on social media, naturally) that they are fasting from social media for Lent. I’m not knocking those approaches, but there are times when my mom-brain just doesn’t seem to have the bandwidth to do something radical like sleep without a pillow.
If you have a non-typical child, you aren’t a typical mom, so those lists of creative Lent ideas simply may not work for you, but you can choose to participate in the three pillars of Lent – prayer, fasting, and almsgiving – in ways that are radical in their own ways. Here are a few to consider:
