Today’s Lenten challenge from St Andrew Memorial was to take 5 minutes of silence at noon.

This could have been easy for me since I work alone in the church most days. I am often in silence. But today I decided to really have 5 minutes of silence. I left my computer and phone, went into the sanctuary and sat there breathing for 5 minutes.

Know what I learned? 5 minutes is a long time!! Especially for an extrovert like myself. I am not sure this challenge helped me. Other then to practice my counting skills. Maybe if I try the 5 minutes of silence next time in a park or something…but then again that is me distracting myself with things around me. Which probably defeats the purpose.

Needless to say. Challenge completed. Not sure I learned anything.