is anything “special” anymore?
No Impact Man posts some great thoughts about whether or not the ability to have everything NOW is progress.
When I was studying Eastern Orthodoxy (purely for my own academic pursuit), fasting came up quite a bit. The EOC has many different fast and feast days coinciding with the Church calendar and other rituals and rites.
There was a time in our not so distant personal past when we couldn’t afford to eat. We would joke that we’d just call it a fast. There is something very different about fasting when you could easily have that thing you are fasting.
Perhaps our Church Fathers weren’t so off base after all. Maybe a little bit of intentional self denial serves the purpose of making things special again, allowing us to be TRULY grateful again.
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I can’t afford a new tattoo. That’s fasting…sort of.
LOL
for the record, I suck at intentionally deferring gratification.
Interesting you mentioned Orthodoxy…..as I’ve been reading about your journey I thought, “Watch out…they’re right for converting!”
Meaning, you fit the bill for the young, educated (former) protestant type who do convert to the EOC.
God be with you,
~Anna
anna - hehe…well, I’ve gotten away from slamming doors closed…so I won’t say never but it’d be a tough “sell”
what if they threw in a free tat for david and a lifetime supply of environ friendly panty liners (in black of course)???
Re David’s comment: LOL, me neither.
Great point here. Wow. My husband complains about this in me all the time, i.e. “Why does everything have to be NOW…?”