Fast: Practices for a Slow Lent and a Spacious Life // Fasting from Holding It All Together
In our vulnerability, we meet God in Christ who weeps, isn't above our grief, but carries it through the cross, redeeming us. Like a Mother Hen, God gathers us beneath her wings with steadfast love.
Fast: Practices for a Slow Lent and a Spacious Life // Fasting from Planning and Deadlines
This is what Jesus is asking. This is what it looks like to fast from planning and deadlines. Jesus is asking us to let go, to take a beat, to open our hands filled with chess pieces, and to repent from our need to plan our way to our desired end because God has something better in store.
Fast: Practices for a Slow Lent and a Spacious Life // Fasting from Scarcity Anxiety
The only reason I jumped into the pool as a kid was because my Aunt Laura was there with arms open, ready to catch me.
Fast: Practices for a Slow Lent and a Spacious Life // Fasting from Multitasking and Inattention
If you've ever scrolled Instagram at a stoplight, played Royal Match in class, browsed the headlines at the dinner table, checked your email during a Zoom call, or made your grocery list during a sermon, this is for you.
Fast: Practices for a Slow Lent and a Spacious Life // Fasting from Consumption
Do we each really need our own lawnmowers?
There’s Always a Voice Trying to Silence Our Praise
But when the crowd gets too raucous, when the parade is bumping, when the praise gets to be too much and too risky, what happens?
A Spelling Bee Second Chance?
It’s lavish. It’s illogical. It’s unearned — and that’s precisely the point.
So... What Are Your Hobbies?
Even when it seems like the tree is doing nothing at all, the gardener still understands the tree to be worthy of care, of nourishment, of tending, of love.
Like A Mother
He’s essentially saying, “I will care for you with the ferocity and strength of a mother."
Full
So I wonder — like those tortilla chips at the start of a meal that leave you full but still so empty, as we begin this season of Lent — I wonder what for you could be filling you up but still leaving you empty?
