faith has been inspiring me lately. she talked about lent and she also quoted this:
and Jesus said unto them, "and who do you say that I am?"
they replied, "you are the eschatological manifestation of the ground of our being, the ontological foundation of the context of our very selfhood revealed."
and Jesus replied, "what?"
thinking of lent, i thought "i should give up scrabble." (where "scrabble" really means "a particular sin i've been struggling with and, usually, not struggling enough against) then i remembered: lent is about giving up extraneous pleasures for a season, so that i can better focus. but if it's something that i know distracts me or (worse!) divides me from God all year round, that's not really something that should wait, right?
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i read these and i laughed. and cried.
"F**k Saddam, we're taking him out." –President Bush to three U.S. Senators in March 2002, a full year before the Iraq invasion
"My answer is bring 'em on." —President George W. Bush, challenging militants attacking U.S. forces in Iraq, July 2, 2003
i wish i was in power.
Like superman power that is
the thing I mention I am doing for lent, I have accually decided to start right now, it will probably take from now to the end of lent just to give up the walkman, not to mention making an effort to listen better to the things around me...which will take the rest of my life! lol
Most of the practices I have done in past lents have come back to me time and again...like giving up TV (which I still need to do on occasion) I think lent helps us see the value of what could happen when we let something go, and it is a lesson we learn for the rest of our lives.
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