Laura of Coptic Dad and Mom won the raffle to pick my Lenten discipline and after some email conversation, it was decided that I would take on the Coptic fast (vegan) with some modifications: I am allowed food and drink before noon due to blood sugar issues and my fast will be suspended on Sundays because those are “mini-Easters” in the Episcopal church. (We’re kind of pansies when it comes to fasting and Lent so we give ourselves a day off.) I also can suspend the fast on St. Patrick’s Day because it’s the feast day of my people. She’ll get a guest post (or two or ten) from me on all of this. 🙂
So… I’m sitting here drinking coffee with coconut milk in it and my breakfast consisted of a banana and some peanut butter. In a few minutes, I’ll be getting dressed (well… at least dressed in my “pretty” clothes) and picking up Rebecca to head to church for Ash Wednesday worship. I’ll probably post a selfie with ashes when I get home.
Tomorrow also begins one of my favorite parts of Lent… LENT MADNESS!!!! Which saint will win the Golden Halo?!?!?!? Surf on over to the Lent Madness site tomorrow to find out!
**UPDATE** I’m back from worship and this is my #ashtag.
Wow, you are a woman warrior! Look forward to hearing about it and just blogged about how fruitful the prayer for enemies has already been and I am sure will bear many more fruits over the season. Thanks again for inspiring it.
🙂 Glad it helped. Thanks should really go to Kelly of This Ain’t The Lyceum because she was the one who assigned it to me.
Also to priest’s wife who has encouraged me in this area as well.
Wow. That’s all.