{"id":107722,"date":"2019-03-29T00:08:36","date_gmt":"2019-03-29T07:08:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/?p=107722"},"modified":"2019-03-18T14:27:42","modified_gmt":"2019-03-18T21:27:42","slug":"fasting-friday-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/2019\/03\/fasting-friday-3.html","title":{"rendered":"Fasting Friday 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>More fasting ideas <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/csc\/101-practical-fasting-ideas-for-lent\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">cribbed from Deacon Nick Senger<\/a> with comments from Yr Obdt Svt:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Each week, write a letter of thanks to a different member of the clergy, beginning with your bishop and parish priest.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>I spend all day writing.\u00a0 I think I\u2019ll pass on this.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Each week write a thank-you note to your parents. <strong>I send my thank yous to Mom and Dad via prayer.\u00a0 I need to do that more often though.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Write a poem of praise for each person in your family. <strong>Hmmmm\u2026 I like this.\u00a0 \u00a0I wrote this for Janet back in May 2016.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote><p><strong>The Key to My Heart<br>\n<\/strong><em>For Janet<\/em><\/p>\n<p>How can it be that I feel younger<br>\nnow, with you, than I did in grey youth? Grimly<br>\npacing the cage of my lonely hunger<br>\nfor love, I tested the bars and dimly<br>\nsaw no way I would ever feel joy\u2019s breeze<br>\non my face.\u00a0 But Love\u2013whose whimsy and light<br>\nlaugh was, from the deeps of\u00a0 time, revealed<br>\nanew in your caress, your kiss, your bright<br>\nsmile\u2013gave the key, and freed me to walk<br>\nin the open air with your cool, good hand<br>\nin mine. And since that day your love unlocked<br>\nmy heart I have not aged, but ripened and<br>\ngrown golden in the glory of your face,<br>\nupturned, shining, silver-framed with God\u2019s grace.<\/p>\n<p><strong>I think poems for my sons would make them feel weird and awkward.\u00a0 But maybe letters?<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li>Get a stack of sticky-notes and write one sentence of thanks each day and stick it to the bedroom door of each person in your family so that by Easter they each have 40 sticky-notes. <strong>This seems more like an annoyance than a blessing to them. Pass.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Find the psalms of thanksgiving or praise in the Bible and pray them. <strong>I like doing this.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Write a list of the ways God has blessed you and add to it each day. This could be done in a notebook or on a big poster hanging on your wall.<strong> I do this when I walk sometimes.\u00a0 It can be remarkably healing.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>At dinner each evening ask your family to share one thing for which they are grateful. <strong>First, we need to eat dinner together, he said with embarrassment.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Make a CD or iPod playlist of praise and worship music and listen to it each day. <strong>Pass.\u00a0 Music distracts when I\u2019m writing.<\/strong><br>\nMake a point of saying \u201cThank You\u201d a certain number of times per day. <strong>Thank you for providing this useful list of ideas, Deacon Nick.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Help your children write thank you letters to their teachers. <strong>Not addressed to my condition.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Go for a walk each day with a loved one and talk about life and faith. <strong>Jan and I do this sometimes, though not every day.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Take the kids to the park each week for some carefree time. <strong>Zoo and aquarium are fun too.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Give up fast food and give the money to charity. <strong>Hmmmm\u2026.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Exercise each day. <strong>I try to do that anyway.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Spend at least half an hour each day in meaningful conversation with your spouse. <strong>I like this idea.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Go on a Lenten retreat. <strong>Not happening this year.<\/strong><br>\nPray with\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/sacredspace.ie\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Sacred Space<\/a>\u00a0each day. Each day, no.\u00a0 B<strong>ut I try to get to Adoration and read the Psalms.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Commit to a daily\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.loyolapress.com\/3-minute-retreats-daily-online-prayer.htm\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">3 Minute Retreat<\/a>. <strong>Maybe<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Begin the online\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/onlineministries.creighton.edu\/CollaborativeMinistry\/cmo-retreat.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">34-week Retreat for Everyday Life<\/a>. <strong>Not happening<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Give up your most unhealthy habit. <strong>So many to choose from.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More fasting ideas cribbed from Deacon Nick Senger with comments from Yr Obdt Svt: Each week, write a letter of thanks to a different member of the clergy, beginning with your bishop and parish priest. I spend all day writing.\u00a0 I think I\u2019ll pass on this. 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