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Lord, Who Throughout These Forty Days

we sang this in church this morning. I'm still fairly new to the liturgical calendar and it resonates with me.

1 Lord! Who throughout these forty days,
For us didst fast and pray,
Teach us with Thee to mourn our sins,
And close by Thee to stay.

2 As Thou with Satan didst contend,
And didst the victory win,
Oh, give us strength in Thee to fight,
In Thee to conquer sin.

3 As Thou didst hunger bear and thirst,
So teach us, gracious Lord,
To die to self, and chiefly live
By Thy most holy Word.

4 And through these days of penitence,
And through Thy Passion-tide,
Yea, evermore, in life and death,
Jesu! with us abide.

5 Abide with us, that so, this life
Of suffering overpast,
An Easter of unending joy
We may attain at last!

In the past I've had "brushes with the prophetic". I believe that I had another.

Since I've been fasting, my mom has made some pretty important improvements

she stood without support for a minute and a half
this includes standing up straight, without her knees against the cupboard in front of the sink
she is doing short arc quad extensions without assistance. (not very high, but she's getting her heel off the bed
for the first time, she's expressing an interest in knitting
for the first time since her surgery, she's reading.
she's listening to music every time she lays down. My brother in law (Jim) put hymns on an mp3 player and she listens a lot.