Mabruuk, mabruuk, mabruuk!!!
I realized that I hadn’t done my Eid post when last year’s Eid wish had been my most visited post for the last couple days, and it was for Eid Likbeer. I also got a hint when all you other bloggers had your Eid wishes up on blogs, FB and emails. Duh. Still the same, dense blonde, I am. Have to leave you with something new and fresh, can’t have a special occasion marked by same-old-same-old.
I read this on an Episcopalian church bulletin one Lenten season, and decided it was what I wanted to finish Ramadan 2008 with. Like we Christians say at Christmas, it would be nice to have this spirit of generosity and gaiety all year ’round, but we get busy with routine and have forgotten before we even loose the weight we gained.
Food for year ’round thought:
• Fast from emphasis on differences; feast on the unity of life.
• Fast from apparent darkness; feast on the reality of light.
• Fast from thoughts of illness; feast on the healing power of God.
• Fast from words that pollute; feast on phrases that purify.
• Fast from discontent; feast on gratitude.
• Fast from anger; feast on patience.
• Fast from pessimism; feast on optimism.
• Fast from worry; feast on divine order.
• Fast from complaining; feast on apprecition.
• Fast from negatives; feast on affirmatives.
• Fast from unrelenting pressures; feast on unceasing prayer.
• Fast from hostility; feast on non-resistance.
• Fast from bitterness; feast on forgiveness.
• Fast from self-concern; feast on compassion for others.
• Fast from personal anxiety; feast on eternal truth.
• Fast from discouragements; feast on hope.
• Fast from facts that depress; feast on verities that uplift.
• Fast from lethargy; feast on enthusiasm.
• Fast from thoughts that weaken; feast on promises that inspire.
• Fast from shadows of sorrow; feast on the sunlight of serenity.
• Fast from idle gossip; feast on purposeful silence.
• Fast from problems that overwhelm; feast on prayer that undergirds.
(Liza and Gila: Happy Rosh Hashana!)
September 30, 2008 at 11:29 pm |
Kinzi,
Reading your Eid greeting is redolent of my reading of the epicurean philosophy. Eid the way I understand it from way back when…is supposed to be redemptive time of all our visceral toxicity. We are supposed to forgive and forget and start new page irrespective of our erstwhile feuds.
October 1, 2008 at 10:00 am |
Glad we could be of assistance, teehee. This is such a great reminder (and like you, my wishes of Eid Mubarak have all been in my mind…). So, Eid Mubarak to my 3 readers, since I know you all also read Kinzi’s blog.
October 1, 2008 at 11:36 am |
Will try to keep em in mind, all the year around!
thanks for your Eid wishes, Kinzi
October 1, 2008 at 1:45 pm |
MommaBean, I meant to mention my favorite Episcopalian in there but forgot. LOL you crack me up, THREE readers. It looks like you and I are some of the only ones out there today.
Sadly, my only visit will be the landlords upstairs. Actually maybe that is better, my slowing digestive system probably couldn’t take any ma3muul.
Hatem, you are the on-line Embodiment of Eloquence. May God help you succeed in all ways of redeeming visceral toxicity, irrespective of any erstwhile friends. (one begins to feel a bit British with that language!)
October 1, 2008 at 1:48 pm |
Secratea, you are most welcome!!!! I usually go post a comment everywhere, too tired this time. I will go read about bats on your blog, tho, shudder. :S
October 1, 2008 at 6:31 pm |
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