a quick and dirty version:
i fasted booze and smokes! it was actually the first time i observed lent in a sacrificial way and it was really amazing..a time to get prepared for Easter, and in the midst of it, i found out i was going to have a baby an so it was also a time to prepare my body for Emma Jean......
it was my beginning of learning how to pare down, how to not have the things i thought i always needed to 'get by' and see how it was truly through God's strength that i get by.......and so by pealing things away, making things more simple that truth was made apparent and in very good timing for what my future held. God's plans are amazing, and when we choose to observe and agree with them, new life comes.....that's what I learned during lent.....