By Rev. Mary Poole

This COVID year has felt like one long Lenten fast.
Forty-plus weeks of quarantine, social distancing, uncertainty, and anxiety about health, jobs, the economy, racism, and politics. Enough, already!
Instead of wallowing in deprivation and scarcity this Lent, why not consider God's abundance -and ours? Instead of FASTING, we could be FEASTING.

William Arthur Ward invites us to do just that:

Fast from thoughts of illness; feast on the healing power of God.
Fast from bitterness; feast on forgiveness.
Fast from discontent; feast on gratitude.
Fast from discouragement; feast on hope.
Fast from worry; feast on divine order.
Fast from emphasis on differences; feast on the unity of life.
Fast from shadows of sorrow; feast on the sunlight of serenity.
Fast from problems that overwhelm;
Feast on prayer that gives you strength.

Lenten Devotions
February 19, 2021