How’d you like my title? Pretty witty eh? Sometimes I out due myself when trying to impress my readership. Can you feel it?
Do you practice Lent? Have you found it to be of value? I’ll be honest, sometimes I have a hard time translating fasting into a tangible spiritual practice. Often times during Lent I just miss eating sweets but I don’t feel any closer to God. Maybe I should fast from sinning, or I could fast laziness. Have you had this same struggle? Is the value of fasting in general simply the act of submitting yourself to something? Is that good enough? Or should I, when my hunger pains or sugar withdraws hit me instantly fall on my knees in worship or confession? That seems more spiritual right?
So many questions.
I’m a minister you know. I’m supposed to be answering these questions! I think, though, that I would be happy with myself if I always erred on the side of asking more questions than I answer.
In the end, for Lent this year, I’m going to try to fast from something that will be hard for me to give up, that will require changed behaviors (for better or worse), and will hopefully remind myself that I have the daily choice to submit to an all loving God whose desire it is to give deeper hope to mankind. I’m giving up sports. Sports talk radio and checking out my sports stuff on the world wide webula. Are you impressed? I didn’t think so.
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I gave up basketball one year – watching, reading, listening. It was tough, I had to not spend time with certain friends and to readjust my priorities. My fantasy team sucked it up (but I was losing already anyway).
Asking questions is the best way to find the answers.