Tomorrow is Ash Wednesday, the start of Lent. I'm not Catholic, but I usually do observe Lent. Especially since I observe Mardi Gras, which is literally meant for you to "get it all out of your system" before you start the sacrifice, service, and penance that will lead you up to Easter.
Does anyone else here observe Lent? How do you observe it? Do you give anything up?
I am giving up secular books. I read a lot, and from tomorrow until Easter I will only be reading the Bible, Christian non-fiction, and possibly some Christian fiction. I have an unread collection of C.S. Lewis masterpieces (several books bound into one book) that I've been meaning to crack into, and this will be the perfect excuse to do that. I've already read Mere Christianity, but the collection book I have contains a whole bunch more, so I'm looking forward to that.
I also try to donate to charity, listen only to Christian muisc, pray and meditate more, study the Bible more, etc. during Lent.