Why Fast

Why Fast

He didn’t have much money

But he gave it anyway

The homeless they’ve been a fasting 

Imagine a Lent that’s everlasting 

He gave away the coat that he was wearing 

It’s snowing hard and not much was the person wearing

Sure he’d get cold and wet walking to his car

And besides it really wasn’t all that far

Later on that day in the store buying some needed food

He spied a worn dressed woman and with her three of her family brood

He offered to her a shopping spree on him

The children laughing and on her face spread a loving grin

Giving you see is necessary for us to gain Heaven 

The alms we pass out are a form of leaven

The kind that raises up our souls with the graces given

Graces that will allow us to forever be with our Lord Jesus Christ He Who has arisen 

Amen 

JFFIII 2/16/24