FAST! by (me!) Sandra, tvgp
Thoughts/passages on fasting and lent and grace: true, last year I gave up all social media for lent.. No blogs, no Facebook, etc. And as much as I blog, everyone thought this would be very difficult for me; it was easy. I had been blessed with grace... This year I'm not fasting at all. And I feel zero guilt about it. My son is fasting on soda.. I'm witnessing the success and struggles.. But overall, and over the years, watching people fast on everything from tv, to chocolate, to beer.. I've been able to pick up on the silliness of it all. Write up there with new years resolutions. My favorite passage in the bible on fasting is here, where the Lord himself, seems to address the silliness and bring people back to higher causes: ISAIAH 58:6 --->. "Is not this the kind of fasting I have chosen: to loose the chains of injustice and untie the cords of the yolk, to set the oppressed free and break every yolk? Is it not to share your food with the hungry, and to provide the poor wanderer with shelter-- when you see the naked, to clothe them, and not to turn away from your own flesh and blood. Then your light will break forth like the dawn, and your healing will quickly appear; then your righteousness will go before you, and the glory of the Lord will be your rear guard. Then you will call, and the Lord will answer; you will cry for help, and he will say: Here am I. if you do away with the yoke of oppression, with the pointing finger and malicious talk, and if you spend yourselves in behalf of the hungry, and satisfy the needs of the oppressed, then your light will rise in the darkness, and your night will become like the noonday. The Lord will guide you always; he will satisfy your needs in a sun-scorched land and will strengthen your frame. You will be like a well-watered garden, like a spring whose waters never fail. Your people will rebuild the ancient ruins and will raise up the age-old foundations; you will be called Repairer of Broken Walls, Restorer of Streets with Dwellings. If you keep your feet from breaking the Sabbath and from doing as you please on my holy day, if you call the Sabbath a delight and the Lord's holy day honorable, and if you honor it by not going your own way and not doing as you please or speaking idle words, then you will find your joy in the Lord, and I will cause you to ride in triumph on the heights of the land and to feast on the inheritance of your father Jacob." For the mouth of the Lord has spoken.
posted by SHE @ 11:14 AM
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