Fast: Ifit doesn’t build you up and strengthen you in your vocation, why read it, why listen
to it, why do it, why bother?
Pray:
Remember that work can be prayer too. Give God your most gruesome task today.
Do it with diligence and love.
Give:
Think of the kind of person your husband was when you were dating. Love and
serve that person today.
When Danielle and I decided to run our daily Lenten prompts again this year, I Patrick changed all the dates from last year's posts so that they would run on the right days this year. I guess that Google Reader doesn't see them as new posts, because they aren't appearing there. I don't see spending the time to cut and paste and completely re-post. So, if you rely on your Google Reader to tell you what's happening in the Heart of My Home, you're going to miss the Lenten prompts. But, you can still get them on your Reader if you're subscribed to Faith and Family Live.
And now for my confession: I totally forgot to check the prompt today and I missed doing the blog/board fast. I'll do that tomorrow (and I think we should add Twitter and Facebook too, huh?). I'm looking forward to a more silent day--today's prompts were some of my favorites last year. I'll be pondering and praying what Ann has said about silence here and what Amy has written about how the habit of writing makes us more aware of the sacred.
Marilyn has a thought-provoking post up with lots of links. She has us thinking about how we affect our daughters' self images for life, particularly with regard to their bodies. In part, she writes:
Watch What You Eat, Yes. But Also Watch What You Say and Do Around Your Daughterwhere Jennifer Huget talks about how our daughters are influenced by the signals we send out about our views of our bodies - that we are the role models for our daughters and will influence their body image. There is a quote that struck me: "But Chadwick notes that we all learn our self-image lessons from our own mothers (and grandmothers) and have to work hard not to pass damaging lessons on to our daughters". The author is talking about Dara Chadwick's new books, You'd Be So Pretty If . . .: Teaching Our Daughters to Love Their Bodies-Even When We Don't Love Our Own
and
An Innocent Word Can Be A Heavy Burden where the author states how a mother's comments can cause a daughter to have a poor body image, and set her on the path of eating disorders. Quote: "Not all eating disorders are triggered by parents, but experts increasingly recognize the dangerous role of thinness-obsessed adults".
A healthy body image is an invaluable gift our daughters take with them into adulthood. Click over and read the rest.
Fast: Don’t read blogsor message boards today. Ask God to make you aware of how much time you have
gained and to show you how He wants you to fill that time.
Pray: “Prayer reveals
to souls the vanity of earthly goods and pleasures. It fills them with light,
strength and consolation; and gives them a foretaste of the calm bliss of our
heavenly home.” -- St. Rose of Viterbo.
Ask God to conquer your vanity and to inspire you to bring calm bliss to
your home on earth so that home become a foretaste of heaven for your family.
Give: Go outside and
play with your children. Don’t just watch them, engage.
I think I'm going to cry.
I'm Elizabeth. I'm a happy wife and the mother of nine children. I grab grace with both hands and write to encourage myself and others to seize and nurture the joy of every day. I blog here with my daughter, Mary Beth, a wholehearted young lady on the brink of adulthood.
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