Category: Inspiration

Lent – A Time of Discipline

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The 40 days of Lent are a good time to work on personal discipline in general. Instead of giving something up, it can be doing something positive. Can’t stress to myself enough about the art of “doing.” Doing leads.

Fish Fridays

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Why fast?
 Fasting is actually a form of penance, which helps us turn away from sin and toward Christ. Denying ourselves something good, we remember what the highest good of all is – GOD. We also practice self-discipline and self-mastery, which we need in order to achieve holiness. Jesus fasted in the desert and calls us to do the same.

Why abstain from meat?
We give up meat, which still today is a luxury in some parts of the world, denying ourselves a good thing to remember that Christ is better than food and needed more by all of us than anything else.

Why is fish not considered meat?
Because it was the food of the poor who could not afford meat, yet could catch fish to sustain themselves.

 

Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros – Man On Fire

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Lyrics:

I’m a man on fire
Walking through your street
With one guitar
And two dancing feet
Only one desire
That’s left in me
I want the whole damn world
To come dance with me

(ohhhhhhhh. Come dance with me)

I’m a hunter at bay
Come and set you free
Over heartache and shame

I wanna see our bodies burning like the old big sun
I wanna know what we’ve been learning and learning from

Everybody want safety (safety love)
Everybody want comfort (comfort love)
Everybody want certain (certain love)
Everybody but me

I’m a man on fire
Walking down your street
With one guitar
And two dancing feet
Only one desire
That’s left in me
I want the whole damn world
To come and dance with me

(bah bah bah bah bah…)

Yay, yay. Come dance with me
Over heartache and rage
Come set us free
Over panic and strange

I wanna see our bodies burning like the old big sun
I wanna know what we’ve been learning and learning from

Everybody want romance (romance love)
Everybody want safety (safety love)
Everybody want comfort (comfort love)
Everybody but me

I’m a man on fire (he’s a man on fire)
Walking down your street (walking down your street)
With one guitar (With one guitar)
And two dancing feet (two dancing feet)
Only one desire (one desire)
That’s still in me (that’s left in me)
I want the whole damn world (I want the whole damn world)
To come and dance with me (come and dance with me yeahhhhh…)

Burning The Palms

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The first day of Lent, Ash Wednesday, finds its name from where we are marked with ashes showing repentance of our sins and mourning. The ashes also represent our mortality. We are created from the earth and eventually that’s where we return. (you are dust and dust you shall return.) We started as nothing and our bodies will become dust and ashes after our death. Reminds us that nobody escapes physical death, and to look forward to eternal life.

Ashes are made into a cross on the forehead because in the ancient days that was the sign of being marked by Christ in baptism. We are no longer our own, but Jesus Christ owns us.

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You Were Made To Be Awesome – A Pep Talk

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What will you create to make the world awesome? Nothin’ if you keep sittin’ there. This is my time, this is your time, this is our time. We were made to be awesome!

A Pep Talk from Kid President to You