Ramadan…
One thing that bothers me about the Ramadan fasting is that I tend to find myself longing for the day to be over, for evening to arrive, so that I can eat. Yet life is so short, how can I wish for days to pass quickly? We barely have the time necessary to become the sort of being God had in mind when He created us. “To become” is perhaps pretentious, to work towards becoming rather.
“Shout everywhere, “Earthly life is short; happiness is not measured in years, it is measured in eternity; every man barely has time to repent, for the regrets of the specter only add torments to its torments ! Listen to the Word That I received and be saved ! “
“The penitent is not the sinner who sits in dirt and wraps himself up in a sack, but the man who stops sinning, even though he wears festive clothes and scent and even though he sings to the music of flutes and trumpets; besides, do not joy and finery suit he who has changed his life ?”
The Revelation of Arès 36/23, 30/11