I think the best thing to "give up" is not loving people enough. Instead I try to love people more. Jesus "gave up" His life. In the ultimate expresion of LOVE for us.
I guess giving something up for lent is a symbolic attempt to imitate the sacrifice Christ made for us. It is sometimes difficult tosacrificechocolate or booze or ice cream for a couple weeks of the year. Making a special effort to give up gossip or putting others down and those kinds of things is a much better posative move.
My church does not practice lent. I have been thru the bible a few times and still can't find out why I should. So I don't worry about it. We should be willing to give up everyday for Christ. I fall short.
Amen BC, its a battle we must endure dailyas we all "fall short of the glory"
BTW, thanks for your post on "underloading and pressure" most folks just think its all about too much powder, thats why the reduced recoil post scare me, most folks don't realize that too little of the wrong powder can be just as bad a problem as too much of the correct powder[&:]
BTW i always avoid those as i know little about CUP's but enough to know they scare me, and to follow the manualsat least as a guideline
anyway, sorry to hear about your range, hopefully it will be back up and running soon
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John 3:16
things are more like right now than they've ever been
It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.
William James
10-4 bud, things are going good here just negoitiating the bad spots in the roadand i know you know what i mean, as far as 33, he will come around, i know he is a great guy, and with a friend like you in his life it will happen, it is all about timing
prayers for you and the misses will continue
BTW, if you ever make the trail of tears you better call me, we are right on the route, 4 miles away
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John 3:16
things are more like right now than they've ever been
It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.
William James
Hislop"™s The Two Babylon's explains, "The forty days"™ abstinence of Lent was directly borrowed from the worshipers of the Babylonian goddess. Such a Lent of forty days, "˜in the spring of the year"™ is still observed by the Yezidis or Pagan Devil-worshipers of Koordistan, who have inherited it from their early masters, the Babylonians"¦.Such a lent of forty days was observed in Egypt"¦held expressly in commemoration of Adonis or Osiris, the great mediatorial god," pp. 104-5.
Osiris"™s counterpart is the Greek Demeter and the Babylonian Tammuz"”both deities of fertility and life. As The Two Babylon's observes, "Among the Pagans this Lent seems to have been an indispensable preliminary to the great annual festival in commemoration of the death and resurrection of Tammuz, which was celebrated by alternate weeping and rejoicing"¦To conciliate the Pagans to nominal Christianity, Rome, pursuing its usual policy, took measures to get the Christian and Pagan festivals amalgameted, and, by a complicated but skillful adjustment of the calendar, it was found no difficult matter, in general, to get Paganism and Christianity"”now far sunk in idolatry"”in this as in so many other things, to shake hands," p. 105.
lent
as we all "fall short of the glory"
