Lent

For Lent this year, I decided to give up soda! So far, so good, but yesterday was rough...All I wanted was a Dr. Pepper w/easy ice from Sonic during Happy Hour. 

I guess the cravings will become less and less intense the longer I stay without it, which is comforting...but isn't the point of Lent, and any other fast, to separate yourself from whatever luxuries you have in order to focus more wholly on God? To make my life a little less pleasant to suffer with Christ? So, I guess the cravings for soda are really just reminders that God is more important to my life than soda. 
When I put it like that it makes the soda thing seem petty. 

Matthew 4:4 & Deuteronomy 8:3 -
"man does not live on bread alone 
but on every word that comes 
from the mouth of the Lord."