Comments on: Ash Wednesday and Lenten Fasting https://healthyspirituality.org/ash-wednesday-and-lenten-fasting/ Nurturing a vibrant healthy spirituality Sat, 03 Dec 2022 15:48:52 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: Jean Wise https://healthyspirituality.org/ash-wednesday-and-lenten-fasting/#comment-8196 Sun, 17 Mar 2019 22:58:35 +0000 http://healthyspirituality.org/?p=6746#comment-8196 In reply to Nancy Ruegg.

Your words mean so much to me!!

]]> By: Jean Wise https://healthyspirituality.org/ash-wednesday-and-lenten-fasting/#comment-8195 Sun, 17 Mar 2019 22:58:07 +0000 http://healthyspirituality.org/?p=6746#comment-8195 In reply to Dolly at Soulstops.

what is even more funny, Dolly is after I made the mistake here I did decide to do this for Lent – not eating after dinner!

]]> By: Dolly at Soulstops https://healthyspirituality.org/ash-wednesday-and-lenten-fasting/#comment-8190 Sat, 09 Mar 2019 03:20:12 +0000 http://healthyspirituality.org/?p=6746#comment-8190 Jean,

I laughed at your “stop eating after dinner” on your list as it was there twice. Ha!

On a more serious note, thanks for the thoughts and suggestions.

Blessings on your Lenten season,

Dolly

]]> By: Nancy Ruegg https://healthyspirituality.org/ash-wednesday-and-lenten-fasting/#comment-8189 Fri, 08 Mar 2019 22:03:05 +0000 http://healthyspirituality.org/?p=6746#comment-8189 I’ve been reading your book, 40 Voices, each morning as part of my quiet time. Today was about Hosanna. I’d forgotten its exact meaning and appreciated the refresher lesson. Love the way you combined the literal meaning and the meaning it has taken on for many of us as we’ve celebrated Palm Sunday over the years. “Hosanna gives hope, joy, and help.” AMEN to that! Thank you also for these creative suggestions to make Lent a more meaningful time, so we are different people by Easter morning. Purging excess stuff, excess food, and excess attention to unimportant matters (to combat my perfectionist tendencies!) sounds like a fitting discipline for me to embrace these forty days.

]]> By: Jean Wise https://healthyspirituality.org/ash-wednesday-and-lenten-fasting/#comment-8185 Wed, 06 Mar 2019 01:18:44 +0000 http://healthyspirituality.org/?p=6746#comment-8185 In reply to Lisa notes.

Thanks Lisa. Isn’t it amazing how writing about a practice helps the writer – us – also clarify our own journeys? I love your theme and the idea of a theme for this season. I know at church our Lenten theme is the Sermon on the Mount – a powerful way of living – I think I will spend more time with Jesus’ lessons there as my theme this year too. Thanks for helping me realize that.

]]> By: Jean Wise https://healthyspirituality.org/ash-wednesday-and-lenten-fasting/#comment-8184 Wed, 06 Mar 2019 01:16:44 +0000 http://healthyspirituality.org/?p=6746#comment-8184 In reply to Linda Stoll.

Thanks Linda. This is a sacred and valuable season and one I take seriously.

]]> By: Jean Wise https://healthyspirituality.org/ash-wednesday-and-lenten-fasting/#comment-8183 Wed, 06 Mar 2019 01:16:01 +0000 http://healthyspirituality.org/?p=6746#comment-8183 In reply to Elizabeth Herbert Cottrell.

I am still chuckling that I listed it twice. At first I was embarrassed and thought about correcting it then realized God WAS telling me something. I think I will add that to my Lenten practices this year. Join me? lol. I am going to spend more time in contemplative prayer too – I am inconsistent with that rich prayer practice so hopefully will spend more time with God and less with food

]]> By: Jean Wise https://healthyspirituality.org/ash-wednesday-and-lenten-fasting/#comment-8182 Wed, 06 Mar 2019 01:14:06 +0000 http://healthyspirituality.org/?p=6746#comment-8182 In reply to Martha J Orlando.

I loved it that we both wrote about Lent today!!

]]> By: Lisa notes https://healthyspirituality.org/ash-wednesday-and-lenten-fasting/#comment-8181 Tue, 05 Mar 2019 19:09:16 +0000 http://healthyspirituality.org/?p=6746#comment-8181 Thanks for all these great suggestions and questions, Jean. This–> “Is it time to let go of what we hold so tightly to that we can’t open our hands to receive God’s blessings?” My Lent theme this year is Go Slow and Say No. I need to release some things so I can lose the overwhelm and be more restful in God’s presence.

]]> By: Linda Stoll https://healthyspirituality.org/ash-wednesday-and-lenten-fasting/#comment-8180 Tue, 05 Mar 2019 18:17:59 +0000 http://healthyspirituality.org/?p=6746#comment-8180 Thanks for this very practical reminder of what Lent can be this year, Jean.

]]> By: Elizabeth Herbert Cottrell https://healthyspirituality.org/ash-wednesday-and-lenten-fasting/#comment-8179 Tue, 05 Mar 2019 17:16:36 +0000 http://healthyspirituality.org/?p=6746#comment-8179 What a wonderful post with so many meaningful ways to ensure that we will, indeed, be new creatures by the time Easter comes. I smiled that “No eating after dinner” appeared twice on your list — and I’m wondering if that’s because YOU needed it to be there twice or because I needed it to be there twice (or both!). Your overall point is so important — there’s no right or wrong way to “do Lent” but we should somehow set it apart and make it a sacred time. Thank you for this important reminder.

I’m sorry about your technical glitches — they can be so frustrating, but probably all worth the wait when the work on your site is done.

]]> By: Martha J Orlando https://healthyspirituality.org/ash-wednesday-and-lenten-fasting/#comment-8178 Tue, 05 Mar 2019 14:37:09 +0000 http://healthyspirituality.org/?p=6746#comment-8178 Jean, your list of suggestions is wonderful, and I always love being reminded of the history of Lent. Like you, my post today is on that very subject!
May your Lenten season be a blessed one!

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