St. Arbucks Chapel – March 12, 2025
A New Perspective on Fasting from “Ashes to Glory” retreat by Dan Schutte. Thank you, Angie Urenda, for sharing these with me.
- Let us fast from judging others and feast on the Christ that dwells in them.
- Let us fast from anger and feast on patience.
- Let us fast from resentment and feast on forgiveness and healing.
- Let us fast from discouragement and feast on hope.
- Let us fast from lies and feast on God’s truth.
- Let us fast from wasting time and feast on the holiness of work.
- Let us fast from gossip and feast on holy silence.
- Let us fast from shame and feast on the mercy of God.
- Let us fast from prejudice and feast on our kinship in Christ.
- Let us fast from selfishness and feast on generosity.
- Let us fast from worry and feast on the story of God’s care.
- Let us fast from gloom and feast on the beauty that surrounds us.
- Let us fast from busyness and feast on cherishing the presence of every moment.
A second Lenten thought.
“The Presence of God does not depend on an act of God’s will; it depends simply on our own realization that where I am, God is.
The challenge is to come to the point that where God is, I am. Wherever. Whenever.
It is not a case of God being present to me. It is a case of my being present to God.
The sure sign that we are living in the Presence of God is the way we see and respond to the rest of the world. Those who have cultivated the Presence of God, see the world as God sees the world. And, they respond accordingly.” Angie Urenda.