Taking A Break From My Habits: Ramadan Kareem
Ramadan, the drawn out custom of fasting for Muslims, will start on May 6 this year. For the following a month, I will quick consistently, from dawn to dusk no eating, no drinking (not water), and no sex; in addition to no battling and no meddling for seventeen hours every day. This year I am getting ready for Ramadan with another goal. The motivation came not from an Islamic researcher, but rather from a Christian clergyman. Not one to watch recordings, I ended my propensity and squeezed the Play button. Fire up. M'ellen Kennedy of Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Atlanta was tending to her assembly on the mainstays of Islam. Fasting, she expressed, was tied in with enjoying some time off from your propensities, to develop propensities that raise you, and forego propensities that pull you down. I had not considered fasting in those terms. We have fixed propensities, be it resting, eating, mingling, contemplating, even the seat we take at the table. We awaken at a proper tim...
