Lent - Staying In Reality

One night I was laying in bed and my mind was racing.  I was thinking about my day and all that consumed it.  One thought held sway over the others, what was going to happen next?!  This was in regards to the show I had been watching earlier that day.  As I continued to lay there and think about this show another thought enter my head, this is not real.  The people in this show are not real nor the events that are happening.  I am thinking and being consumed by things and events and people that don't exist.  I enjoy TV, shows that are produced well and creative, movies that are intense, funny and make you think but it all was getting to be too much.  I needed to clear my head and get back to what is real and true.  Around the corner was Lent, though I do not participate in this tradition of fasting until easter regularly, I decided that this was the year.  I would give up fiction TV and books and only read and consume things that are true and real.  Biographies, documentaries, books that encourage or teach.  That is the goal.  Here I will try and document the things that I do in place of my routine of watching a TV show to fill in the time.  I was in Montana with my sisters for the first week of Lent so I allowed myself to start when I got home.  Day one was yesterday and this is what I did.
I found myself being bored and my husband on his way out the door to a Biblestudy.  Me and my son were home alone and temptation was there as no one was watching what would be taking up my time.  God gave me the creativity to make homemade granola instead, read some books with my son, color in his coloring book and then make some dinner.  My son was full of energy so we played a bit and then I looked for a documentary to watch and found one on Tsunami's.  In light of recent world events I thought this would be a good one to watch.  It was very interesting but very easy to pause and get my son ready for bed, read his Bible with him and then pray.  When my husband came home I was excited to talk to him about what I had been learning on my show but again it was easy to step away from the documentary and just talk to him about the evening that he had. 
The experience of Lent has been very positive so far and I am encouraged to see how God will continue to work through this commitment.  Already I see that God is challenging me, it has been raining and gloomy making it harder to go outside and be occupied with outdoor activities. 
I encourage you to allow God to work in you during this season of Lent.