Lent Not Just A Catholic Thing

Right now we are in the 40 day period between Ash Wednesday and Easter Sunday. Lent as it is commonly called is a time when people of the Catholic faith do without something in their lives that is important to them. Tradition says that when you want to do that thing you have given up you are to think on what Christ gave up for you. Far too many protestants don't give up anything for Lent: when you ask why: they reply why should they; after all Lent is a "Catholic thing". It is as if being a "Catholic thing" makes it bad to those of us who are protestants. Should not any faith practice that helps us reflect on the meaning of Easter be attempted by those of us who call ourselves Christians? Maybe its time that we put away our prejudices, trying something new and spritually stimulating this Easter season - Lent!