Giving Up Something for Lent? Give Back Instead.

Andra Watkins
3 min readFeb 26, 2020

Welcome to Lent. For forty days, Christians worldwide give up vices like social media, alcohol and dessert to mimic Christ’s forty days of isolation, prayer and fasting ahead of his crucifixion.

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Don’t be surprised when the world’s discourse spirals further down the drain in the coming weeks. Look at all the caffeine-deprived, sugar-crashing screen addicts who will be exhausted…

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Andra Watkins

NYT bestselling author NOT WITHOUT MY FATHER | speaker | dreamer | risk-taker | travel whore | turn I wish I had into I’m glad I did andrawatkins.com