Lent is not a Pelagian quest to work the hardest to get to Heaven.
The older I get, the more wary I become of my plans for Lent. When I was younger, I used to make a big plan of everything I was going to do: what I was going to give up, how I was going to pray more, etc. I often approached Lent with a “go big or go home” mentality. It was the perfect time to get things back in order, to kick bad habits, and hey, maybe even to lose some weight.
The last few years,…