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Lent is slowly coming to a close (but remember it ends Sunrise Easter Sunday, in case you were wondering). Has it been the experience you wanted spiritually and/or financially? Why or why not? If not, maybe write the major reason why it didn’t work, but also make a list of things that did work during your Lenten devotions.

If you were trying to save as much money as possible, and did manage to cut out buying coffee at work, but then had to replace the muffler on your car, that’s ok! You controlled what you could control, sometimes things just come up, no point in beating yourself up.

Enjoy this Sunday, relax, and know that Easter is coming soon.

So how goes your Lenten journey both spiritually and financially? Things will soon wrap up with Palm Sunday and finally Easter weekend. I look forward to Easter week, just because it allows me to “reconnect” with my Church and Faith.

Financially how has your plans gone? Mine has not been as good as my spiritual ones, but hope springs eternal. I will start anew today and see if I can get the financial plan back on track and aim again at my financial goals for Lent and for 2007.

A small slip or a big one, does not mean the journey is over, just that you need to maybe restart it, that is all, don’t give up, redouble your efforts!

Go on over and check out FMF as well, he has his usual good Sunday postings, including a very good one on The Bible’s Views on Borrowing –C8j

Hey, those ain’t my rules, that’s what our minister told us. If you actually count the days in Lent from Ash Wednesday to Good Friday, you get more than 40 days, so the story I get is that on Sunday you get a break from your Lenten vows. Now I usually forget this one, and if you are doing financial stuff, maybe it’s not a good day to go “off the wagon” as it were, but if you are giving up chocolate or coffee, enjoy a little today, but get back to your vows ASAP on Monday!

My alcohol free Lent has started, but it is not going to be easy that is for sure. Oh well, if it was easy, what’s the point in doing it.

If you are putting away your credit cards for Lent, drop me a line with your progress, I am very interested in hearing from you.

Cheers, –C8j

Hope your Shrive is well and truly done, and you are ready for the coming of Lent tomorrow. Shrove Tuesday or Pancake Tuesday is a fun day at our Church, where we have a pancake and sausage dinner and folks get together and have a meal together.

It’s an ending and a beginning kind of event. It’s the end of something that you are going to try to “give up” for Lent and the beginning of a journey to see whether you can live up to your promises.

Every day in your financial and fiscal planning life can be like this if you give yourself a chance, and just START doing something about your financial plan (and your life plan, if you want to go to that grand a scale). It’s really trite to say, but each day is the first day of the rest of your life (yes I can’t believe I typed that one either). Begin something new today, remember Lent does not just mean to give something up, you can take something on as well.

Over at Don’t Mess With Taxes you can find Tax Carnival #12, which is mostly an American perspective but still some very interesting articles to read over. They mention my “Cut Taxes or Lower Debt” posting from last week as well.