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Tue 16 Feb 2010 14:53:01 | 0 comments

A time to be silent ….

Ecclesiastes 3:7

As tomorrow is the beginning of the Lenten season, I wanted to let you know that I am giving up blogging for Lent. Lent has not been a part of my religious heritage, but something that I have embraced more recently.

Along with blogging I will be giving up sugar. I asked my friend Cheri to join me and she said, “Sugar is like Water!” She then said she would pray about my request, and ten minutes later called to say she was giving up “intentional sugar” for Lent. I asked her what she meant, and she said she is not going to eat/drink something if she knows it has sugar in it. (She is not going to worry about the hidden sugar that is in so many things.)

If you had not planned to observe Lent, I would like to invite you to prayerfully consider something that you could abstain from until Easter. This is an excellent time to focus on self-control — a challenging fruit of the spirit to grow.

“The gifts of the Holy Spirit do not automatically become evident in our lives …. Every further step of spiritual growth in God’s grace must be preceded by acknowledging our lack of a godly attribute and by exhibiting a prayerful determination to obtain it.” L.B. Cowman, Streams in the Desert

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