Lent Post Hungers and Fasts

Still doing any Lenten fasting?
Some quotes (probably from Sojourners Verse and Voice) that I invite you to intermingle around a common theme?

Most of us have to taste our need in a fierce sort of way before our hungers jar us into turning our lives over to God.... In the Divine Arms we become less demanding and more like the One who holds us. Then we experience new hungers. We hunger and thirst for justice, for goodness and holiness. We hunger for what is right. We hunger to be saints. Most of us are not nearly hungry enough for the things that really matter. That’s why it is so good for us to feel a gnawing in our guts.
- Macrina Wiederkehr
A Tree Full of Angels

Inherent in a fast is a feast. When we fast from food, we feast on prayer and God’s bountiful love. When we fast from divisive patterns of relating with others, we feast on the amazing awareness that each face we see is the face of Christ. When we fast from building social, economic, and political walls, we feast on our universal oneness with the One.
- Marilyn Brown Oden
Wilderness Wanderings

842 million people do not have enough to eat —
more than the populations of USA, Canada, Europe
and Japan.

With a world population of 6.3 billion, the 842
million people who experience hunger represent
one out of every eight members of the global
human family.

Is not this the fast that I choose:
to loose the bonds of injustice,
to undo the thongs of the yoke,
to let the oppressed go free,
and to break every yoke?
Is it not to share your bread with the hungry,
and bring the homeless poor into your house;
when you see the naked, to cover them,
and not to hide yourself from your own kin? Isaiah 58:6-7

And a reminder that this is Food Share Month. We are collecting at church!