FAT TUESDAY
The feast before the Fast.
I just read again on Wikipedia [which we know is the most reliable soure of information] some of the orgins of Lent. There was one paragraph that stuck out to me.
“There are traditionally forty days in Lent which are marked by fasting, both from foods and festivities, and by other acts of penance. The three traditional practices to be taken up with renewed vigour during Lent are prayer (justice towards God), fasting (justice towards self), and almsgiving(justice towards neighbour). ”
My heart is challenged and the voice of God is speaking for me to devote myself to prayer, to practice fasting, and live out justice over the next forty days. So my beautiful wife and I are entering a Daniel’s fast with periodic fasts dispersed in-between along with some forms of media we are restraining from. I am excited to see what God does during the next forty days. Easter is Coming! Resurrection is on its Way. What is it that are you devoting yourself to the days leading up to Easter?
