The question for me is not whether there’s a point to giving things up during Lent, but whether I should ever stop fasting from all that numbs, dulls, and deadens me to life, all of life, as it is today—the good and the bad. Fasting makes me willing to try. Continue here....
-- María de Lourdes Ruiz Scaperlanda
The interior experience of God’s presence [through prayer] activates our capacity to experience God in everything else—in people, in events, in nature.
-- Thomas Keating
