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April 15: Fasting – Pilgrimage of Resurrection
(A Creative Journey through the Easter Season)

Pilgrimage of Ressurection

Word for Today: Fasting

April 15 - FastingFasting isn’t just for its own sake….Fasting is really an invitation to authentic freedom.

—Christine Valters Paintner, The Soul of a Pilgrim: Eight Practices for the Journey Within

Reflective question: What are the things in your life, from material possessions to personal beliefs, which weigh you down and restrict you, obscuring your search for God? What ideas about yourself keep you limited from everything you can be in your life?

 


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2 Responses

  1. “fasting” ~ a seven word poem

    this moment
    releasing ~
    reclaim!
    fasting from all
    not serving ~
    true self expressing!

    with gratitude