I shall let you into a secret. Lent is my favourite season of the church year. Being a natural extrovert I need structured space to explore my shadow side – to reflect, consider and to fast. I wonder what we understand by fasting. Do we think of going without food for 40 days and 40 nights, or do we start a little smaller?
Fasting has always been part of the Christian life, the ‘Teaching of the Twelve’, a Christian book from the first century, states:
“Let not your fasts [.....]
