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I really don’t want to say I’m a hoarder … can we say “pack rat”? Recently my wife and I were beginning to clean out a small storage building we have behind our house and she asked, “How many times … Continue reading
Tag Archives: Fasting
As we once again come to Ash Wednesday and Lent, I want to share again the following prayer that for me speaks to the balance this season can point us toward, Fast from judging others; feast on the Christ indwelling … Continue reading
If I am counting correctly tomorrow brings us to the 20th day of Lent. We are essentially half-way through. How has it been? What have you been doing? What have you not been doing? What have you been noticing? What … Continue reading
And Lent begins today. Maybe you have already been reading and thinking about Ash Wednesday and Lent and I would like only to put one item before you today. I shared this prayer last year and I offer it again … Continue reading
Did you make room during these past days for the Lenten Prayer we shared last week? How did it go? I have to confess that I did not make time everyday to pray it but I did on several days … Continue reading
A few weeks ago I mentioned a couple of lenten devotionals that seemed to point toward finding balance in our lives. Several years ago I came across a lenten prayer that addresses in its own way some aspects of our … Continue reading
With Lent arriving in two weeks I see more and more “advertisements” for ways to spend some of your time during Lent. Publishers and book-sellers offer suggestions, well known (and lesser known) religious/spiritual writers offer suggestions, and churches/denominations/organizations direct you to resources (often ones they … Continue reading
Many weeks ago ( #21, #22, and #23 ) I mentioned what Dallas Willard calls the spiritual disciples of abstinence and engagement. He sees both as necessary for the Christian life and likens it to “outbreathing” and “inbreathing.” I wonder … Continue reading
In our past several weeks of thinking about fasting what has been your experience? Have you fasted? Did you decide to fast for some period of time? Why? Were you “suppose” to? Or did something call you to a time … Continue reading
Today I want to share with you not a quote from one of the more recent writers on spiritual disciplines but words from an ancient Hebrew prophet. These are words many heard a few weeks ago on Ash Wednesday, “Shout … Continue reading