today is ash wednesday, which marks the beginning of lent (the forty-day liturgical season of fasting and prayer before Easter). last year on ash wednesday we had to meet friends in the city for dinner. we had dinner in the east village, where a lot of young & trendy people hang out. i remember wondering why so many of those young & trendy people on the streets had black marks on their foreheads. until i realized that they were catholics observing ash wednesday, with the cross marked on their foreheads with ash. i was impressed with how they were totally unashamed of their religious practice. today i'm meeting someone for dinner in midtown. i'm interested to see how many people in midtown will have the ash on their foreheads tonight.
for lent, i usually encourage my church members to fast from something worldly & feast on something godly. it think it's a great tradition which helps you to see how dependent you are on certain worldly things. this year, i will be fasting from a website called pbase & i will be feasting on the bible. pbase is a website that lets you see thousands of pictures taken by any particular lens or camera that you search. i spend way too much time researching different lenses on this website. for all that time that i would have been looking at pbase, i hope to be in the bible. maybe i will even get ahead on my one-year bible reading plan.
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