Forty Day Brain Repair: or, Why I Gave Up Facebook for Lent

For the third year in a row, I have chosen to stay off of Facebook for the forty days of Lent. While many Lenten practitioners forego some guilty pleasure in order to offer a sacrifice to the Divine, I look at Lent as an opportunity to explore how some of my automatic and habitual behaviors are affecting my spiritual discipline. My definition of spiritual discipline is pretty simple: am I using my time and attention to become the best person I can be?

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