Whine Whine Whine

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Day 5 of no heat.Â? (Well… at least no furnace.Â? The middle floor has baseboard heat and I have a space heater in my study.)

We’re out of milk until I get the courage up to brave the elements and go down to the co-op.

The furnace dude came to the middle floor entrance which means that I got a face full of snow this morning.

No LSAT scores yet.

Ash Wednesday Musings… A Day Late

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So Ash Wednesday was yesterday and I forgot to post!Â? Then again, I’d forget my head if it wasn’t screwed on.Â? 🙂

Lent hath begun for us in the West.Â? (The Eastern Churches started on Monday.)Â? My Lenten things are…

-no meat on Fridays (and Ash Wednesday)
-crocheting bandages for Global Health Ministries
-reading Reconciliation and A Season for the Spirit by Fr. Martin Smith
-(hopefully) confessing to a priest at some point during Lent

I’ll leave you with a hymn for yesterday…

The glory of these forty days
We celebrate with songs of praise;
For Christ, by Whom all things were made,
Himself has fasted and has prayed.

Alone and fasting Moses saw
The loving God Who gave the law;
And to Elijah, fasting, came
The steeds and chariots of flame.

So Daniel trained his mystic sight,
Delivered from the lionsâ???? might;
And John, the Bridegroomâ????s friend, became
The herald of Messiahâ????s Name.

Then grant us, Lord, like them to be
Full oft in fast and prayer with Thee;
Our spirits strengthen with Thy grace,
And give us joy to see Thy face.

O Father, Son, and Spirit blest,
To thee be every prayer addressed,
Who art in threefold Name adored,
From age to age, the only Lord.
— 1982 Hymnal #143