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2nd March 2006, 03:26 PM
|  | Senior Veteran
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What do you do to observe Lent (if you do)? Do you give something up? Take something on? Something entirely different?
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The question is not whether we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be. Will we be extremists for hate or for love? Will we be extremists for the preservation of injustice or the extension of justice? --Martin Luther King, Jr. |
2nd March 2006, 04:01 PM
| | Walking the tightrope of life
  
| | Join Date: 20th November 2005
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Reps: 103,025,250,577,178 (power: 103,025,250,587) | | | This year I've given up all alcohol (which isn't as easy as it sounds with no where to go but bars). |
2nd March 2006, 04:34 PM
|  | O Christianos Cryptos; Amor Vincit Omnia!
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| | Join Date: 21st October 2004 Location: Berkeley, CA
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Reps: 9,223,372,051,715,188 (power: 9,223,372,051,740) | | | This year the fast I have taken on includes a commitment to my health in various ways- I figure I'm no use to the Lord if I'm dead, whether physically or spiritually. So that has taken on a few different meanings. I've embarked on a serious study of Paul's epistles as well. |
2nd March 2006, 04:37 PM
|  | Believe
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| | Join Date: 17th April 2004 Location: Ohio
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Reps: 18,114,585,688,161,456 (power: 18,114,585,688,174) | | | I have given up chicken. Now I realize most people think (or seem to) that it's red meat I should give up, but I eat chicken like others (who are not begans) eat red meat. Chicken is one of my, um... ambrosias.
I can already feel mysefl wanting it... I should stop talking about it now. HEhe.
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I am the way, I am the light
I am the dark inside the night
I hear your hopes, I feel your dreams
And in the dark I hear your screams
Don't turn away, just take my hand
And when you make your final stand
I'll be right there ,I'll never leave
All I ask of you
Believe
-Believe by Savatage and the Trans-Siberian Orchestra
Don't fear tomorrow
And don't fear the night
It's where God repairs sorrows
That enter your life
-TSO
For the children are the architects of the future, and we are the architects of our children.
-Paul O'Neill
The world isn't the way it's supposed to be. That's why there's us. Champions. We live as though the world were as it should be, to show it what it can be.
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2nd March 2006, 05:13 PM
|  | Frum in the Chood yo!
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| | Join Date: 29th December 2005 Location: Kansas
Posts: 4,223
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Reps: 161,004,301,207 (power: 161,004,312) | | | I observe the Orthodox fast.
Can I also give up fundies for lent?
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2nd March 2006, 05:27 PM
| | Believe
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Reps: 18,114,585,688,161,456 (power: 18,114,585,688,174) | | | LOL, I think I'll give up LCMS and WELS-minded people for lent... heheheh. (Not really...)
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I am the way, I am the light
I am the dark inside the night
I hear your hopes, I feel your dreams
And in the dark I hear your screams
Don't turn away, just take my hand
And when you make your final stand
I'll be right there ,I'll never leave
All I ask of you
Believe
-Believe by Savatage and the Trans-Siberian Orchestra
Don't fear tomorrow
And don't fear the night
It's where God repairs sorrows
That enter your life
-TSO
For the children are the architects of the future, and we are the architects of our children.
-Paul O'Neill
The world isn't the way it's supposed to be. That's why there's us. Champions. We live as though the world were as it should be, to show it what it can be.
-TV's Angel
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2nd March 2006, 07:39 PM
|  | I look Time Lord
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| | Join Date: 6th March 2005 Location: Devon, UK
Posts: 3,856
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Reps: 5,752,933,205,571,647 (power: 5,752,933,205,581) | | | I'm giving up all types of meat for lent.
I will use the time to reflect many things .
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2nd March 2006, 09:46 PM
|  | Left the river, made it to the sea
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| | Join Date: 10th May 2005
Posts: 18,660
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Reps: 9,912,024,706,364 (power: 9,912,024,731) | | I gave up beer.
I'll probably lose ten pounds in the process too 
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“This is the man I want myself to be but who cannot exist, because God does not know anything about him. And to be unknown to God is altogether too much privacy. My false and private self is the one who wants to exist outside the reach of God’s will and God’s love –outside of reality and outside of life. And such a self cannot help but be an illusion." -- Thomas Merton |
3rd March 2006, 02:13 AM
|  | Dance Dance French Revolution
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| | Join Date: 22nd February 2005 Location: Hazelwood, Mo
Posts: 781
Blessings: 95,859
Reps: 7,243 (power: 14) | | I gave up chocolate, but as this is my first Lent I forgot and had some today.  But I'll remember tomorrow.
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3rd March 2006, 08:04 AM
|  | Regular Member
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| | Join Date: 18th December 2005 Location: Dallas
Posts: 440
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Reps: 22,569 (power: 29) | | | I've made some various promises for Lent. I'm observing the Lenten fast of two small meals and one full meal 6 days per week. I'm also using the fast as well as exercise to improve my physical health.
I'm also going to visit some different churches in the area for spiritual growth. | | |
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