Thanks. I’ve found that fasting from most anything can be a difficult journey, but almost always a beneficial one if we do it with good motives. (Are we still in week 1? ha)

Yes, I hope it will be a sweet goodbye and not a terribly sad one. I have such mixed emotions heading into it. It won’t be the last time I’ll be at the house by any means, but the last time we’ll all be there together.

My church community doesn’t celebrate lent either so whatever I do, I do on my own. I am reading through a devotional book on the Holy Spirit that is good for any time.

Not really thought about lent. As a church we do not celebrate it and Easter is coming upon us so soon this year, but i will give it some thought, but 40 days without sugar would probably be very helpful but difficult enough to make it mean something more.

I love how God brings different spiritual disciplines to us at different seasons of our life. This must be the right one for you for fasting!

Laughing with you about not knowing how to categorize yourself because I relate to that as well. Ha. At a recent retreat, we went around the circle telling what church we were from, and I wasn’t sure how to explain mine. I decided on “non-denominational Protestant” but even that seemed so boxy. I like your words the best: “just a person who has found freedom in Christ.”

Having never grown up with Lent, it’s been a new phenomenon to me the past couple decades. I can see how you’d feel differently from your background. So thankful it’s not a rule we have to keep one way or the other, but a practice we’re free to use or not use to draw us closer to God.

Enjoy your vacation!

Thinking about your recent impromptu vacation with your family–you were living out this message in the flesh. Incarnation is such a wonderful gift!

Funny that I hadn’t paid much attention to my brother towering over the parents. But I definitely recognized it with us girls, in more ways than one. ha.

I used to never pay attention to Lent either. I’d heard of it (vaguely) through Catholicism, but never in the Protestant world. It’s definitely gained traction in the last several years though as a worthy practice, even though not a required one.

Yes, sometimes a season much longer than Lent enters our life, a time of sacrificing one thing in particular. Praying for Jesus to fill all the spots we empty out for his presence….