Lent is not a season of deprivation it is a season to satiate the soul. The season of Lent prepares us to welcome more than we can imagine. Each year we fast and invite others to join us in fasting… not chocolate or coffee but fasting the negative fixations that don’t satisfy. Would you like to join us in fasting: power and control, security and survival, approval and affection? Warning: your life will be different…including your social media=)
Try Thomas Keating’s Welcoming Practice (Prayer) for 40 days:
I welcome everything that comes to me today
because I know it’s for my healing.
I welcome all thoughts, feelings, emotions, persons,
situations, and conditions.
I let go of my desire for power and control.
I let go of my desire for affection, esteem,
approval and pleasure
I let go of my desire for survival and security.
I let go of my desire to change any situation,
condition, person or myself.
I open to the love and presence of God and
God’s action within.
Amen.