today is ash wednesday. many should know that already. for lent i'm hoping to do three things to hopefully deepen my faith practices.
i will be seeking to follow "a cool lent" by the friends at cool people care. the thought is that i will pay closer attention to the 5 minutes of caring and seek to enact the practices through lent, and hopefully beyond.
for no other reason than, it's been on the shelf for awhile and i want to read it. i'm going to be reading mclaren's "the secret message of Jesus" as my lenten reading. i'm not sure what to expect from this, which, is probably a good thing.
third thing. i'm hoping to establish a practice of regular fasting. it's something i struggle with. partly because my life becomes very undisciplined on a regular basis, thus ruining any rhythm. i'm not quite sure how this practice will manifest itself. probably the wesley fast (thursday evening to friday afternoon, as i know it). we shall see.
