Mark loves to blow smoke, pretending to know something. Shrove Tuesday derives its name for writing a confession of sin - schreiben - shrove, not for being forgiven. A shriven person is one who has made a confession of sins.
Mrs. Ichabod laughed at his grasp of German.
I laughed at the Mardi Gras beads. They are thrown at women who lift their tops during the Mardi Gras celebrations in New Orleans.
Oh Mark!
Today's
Grace Moment:
Shrove
Tuesday
Can you get pączki
(pronounced poonch-key) where you live? These scrumptious Polish jelly donuts
appear only once a year on "Fat Tuesday," Mardi Gras, and symbolize one last
rich food fling before the 40 days of Lenten austerity.
Mardi Gras' annual
excesses of drinking and partying have cast something of
a
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Video
Devotion:
Shrove
Tuesday - Be Forgiven!
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shadow on the fine old
custom of "Shrove Tuesday." Self-denial is good, but so is enjoying the gifts
and treasures that God has built into our earth. Both feasting and fasting can
honor the Lord Jesus.
Jesus once ruefully
observed, "To what,
then, can I compare the people of this generation? What are they like? They are
like children sitting in the marketplace and calling out to each other: 'We
played the flute for you, and you did not dance; we sang a dirge, and you did
not cry.' For John the Baptist came neither eating bread nor drinking wine, and
you say, 'He has a demon.' The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and you say,
'Here is a glutton'" (Luke
7:31-34).
Whether or not you
load up on pączki today, let your heart be glad for all the treats and joys that
God has sent into your life. Enjoy most of all the sweet serenity of knowing
that all your sins have been forgiven through the suffering, death, and
resurrection of Jesus.
