#Lent Day 15: Fasting from Spiritual Self-Protection. WHOO, Jesus is trying me with these fasts. Can’t I go back to just giving up candy or somethin?! These daily fasts from 40 Days of Decrease are challenging me like nothing I’ve experienced lately, so I must be on the right track
#Lent2016 Day 3: Fast from collecting praise. I’m working through the #lent book 40 Days of Decrease by Alicia Britt Chole, and today’s #fast is not to deflect praise through self deprecation (as I often do,) but to redirect praise to #God, like John the Baptist did. “John decreased so
These are the qualities I’m attracting to myself for #NoRegrets Day 2 of #Lent2016: Reciprocity, emotional support, to be loved in the way I ask for it, safety, security, joy, understanding
“My child, please remember, you are but dust and to dust you shall return. Go in peace.” These were the words whispered over me by a Catholic priest at my first AshWednesday service. What perspective for my hurt ego, my broken heart, my disappointments and setbacks…they’re all but dust. And so