6 mar // catch up.
in case you’re wondering how i’m doing, i’m doing okay. i’ve been too caught up in work and school and relationships that it’s been hard to carve out time to reflect. no excuse, i know.
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today marks the beginning of Lent! this will be my second time actually properly fasting during Lent. i think this year i’ll be fasting secular music, telly, scrolling insta (but not posting: read more below!) and lastly playing phone games. i was partly inspired by henry, who is fasting similar things in a bid to feed less junk to his mind, and create more space for God; both which i need too. on top of that, a lot of these things i do as modes of escaping and procrastinating, and i really should start finding more productive and meaningful ways of relaxing instead.
oh, oh!! and this year i’m so happy to be doing the 40 Acts challenge alongside a whole group of youth!!! :)
for today’s act, i’m choosing to go with the most difficult option: to document my journey on social media!! so here it is, my blog post for today. i also decided that i want to challenge myself to post on insta every day too. it’s a discipline that i’ve tried to pick up again and again but never really succeeded in, and this time, with prompts every day, i’m hoping i’ll pick this discipline of reflecting and learning and sharing back up again.
“whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever sows generously will also reap generously. each of you should give what you have decided in your heart to give, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver. and God is able to bless you abundantly, so that in all things at all times, having all that you need, you will abound in every good work.” 2 corinthians 9:6–8 NIV
i want to sow generously, not because i want to reap generously, but because i want to sow in accordance to His will, and proportionate to how much i love my Father God. today i pray that my love for Christ would lead to sowing for His kingdom, and that my sowing would in turn channel even more of a love for Him! i’m excited to see where these 40 days will take me.
