What can you fast from?

As we invite you to try on the Spiritual Discipline of Fasting this week, remember that As Henri Nouwen says, “We have to fashion our own desert (wilderness) where we can withdraw every day, shake off our compulsions and dwell in the gentle healing presence of the Lord. Without such a desert (wilderness) we will lose our own soul while preaching the gospel to others.”

Clearly something special happens between God and his people in the wilderness! We, too, need to be strengthened by God’s intimate love and ministry to us—gifts that come to us in unique ways as we fashion our own wilderness through expanded practices of solitude, silence and prayer. Lent, after all, is meant to help us return to our first love and to return with all our hearts. It is a call to the desert where life is stripped down to its barest essence, where distraction is stripped away, and we give ourselves unreservedly to the Lover of our Souls.♥️

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