Today is Friday March 1st.

As I enter prayer now, I slow my body and quiet my mind,

setting my whole being in the presence of the living God who is ever present to me.

Recalling the day I've lived, treasuring its blessings as I look into God's face and laying its burdens at his feet. Oh, Come, let us bow down in worship.

Let us kneel before the Lord, our maker. Aba, father, in this Lenten season of prayer and fasting, I ask that you not only work through my prayers, but work

within me, even beyond my prayers.

The laying aside of one appetite with the aid of your spirit gives rise to another.

Toon my taste buds to hunger for your presence, my eyes to see your coming, my ears to hear your

whisper, and my lips to savor your blessings which are showered upon me each day, even this one. Oh, A reading from Psalm 95, come, let us think for joy to the Lord, that a shout aloud to the Rock of our salvation,

that has come before him with thanksgiving and extol him with music and song.

For the Lord is the great God, the great king above all gods. In his hands of the depths of the earth and

the mountain peaks belong to him. The sea is his, for he made it, and his hands formed the dry land.

Come, let us bow down in worship.

Let us kneel before the Lord our maker

for he is our God

and we are the people of his pasture

the flock under his care.

Today I'm going to

today I prayed and fasted aligning myself with the words of Romans 12-1.

Therefore I urge you brothers and sisters, in view of God's mercy, to offer your bodies as a living

sacrifice, wholly and pleasing to God. This is your true and proper worship.

Through the practice of fasting, I am offering my body as a living sacrifice. I am humbling my physical body,

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