Lent

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.

This year I've given up all alcohol (which isn't as easy as it sounds with no where to go but bars).

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.

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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Don't fear tomorrow
And don't fear the night
It's where God repairs sorrows
That enter your life
-TSO

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

If you want to arrange it, this world you can change it, if we could just somehow make this Christmas thing last... By helping a neighbor, or even a stranger, and to know who needs help, you need only just ask.
-TSO


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I observe the Orthodox fast.

Can I also give up fundies for lent?

Joe Zollars

LOL, I think I'll give up LCMS and WELS-minded people for lent... heheheh. (Not really...)

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Don't fear tomorrow
And don't fear the night
It's where God repairs sorrows
That enter your life
-TSO

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

If you want to arrange it, this world you can change it, if we could just somehow make this Christmas thing last... By helping a neighbor, or even a stranger, and to know who needs help, you need only just ask.
-TSO


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I'm giving up all types of meat for lent.
I will use the time to reflect many things .

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Power to the people~Wolfie Smith

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

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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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.