Lent is coming up, and I had been tempted to go with my standard practice of limiting social media to about ten minutes a day. However, in light of today's Gospel, I think that I might do the opposite. Instead of trying to cut myself off from the world further, my plan is to reach out more in a positive way. To that end, I'm setting a challenge of posting five positive comments on different posts every day.
I'm not going to make the restriction more than that, but I will try to spread out these positive affirmations between different people, organizations, or groups. I will not count comments that I make in response to comments on my posts or comments, but I will endeavor to keep those positive as well. As a separate component, I will also try to avoid posting negative comments for those 40 (plus) days as well.
We will see how it goes.