For our friends in New Orleans, Mardi Gras means something different this year. As I overheard one New Orleanian say, it's not for the tourists.
Mardi Gras is a day, supposedly, for excess. Fat Tuesday. Come midnight, it's all over for six long weeks of Lent. This Mardi Gras, I hope that in addition to indulging one last time to whatever we are giving up, we can also remember that Lent is an oppurtunity to make great internal change. Perhaps today, we can also think of those traits which are holding us back from God (jealousy, dishonesty, arrogance, etc) and practice fasting from those things starting on Ash Wednesday.
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