{"id":32528,"date":"2016-03-11T10:24:24","date_gmt":"2016-03-11T16:24:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/?p=32528"},"modified":"2016-03-11T10:29:33","modified_gmt":"2016-03-11T16:29:33","slug":"help-the-ultimate-lenten-discipline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/2016\/03\/11\/help-the-ultimate-lenten-discipline\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Help!&#8221; &#8211; the ultimate Lenten discipline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/churchlife.nd.edu\/2016\/03\/11\/learning-to-say-help\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"http:\/\/churchlife.nd.edu\/2016\/03\/11\/learning-to-say-help\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-32568\" src=\"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/OMalleyHelp1.jpg\" alt=\"Image: Crying toddler. Kimberly Belcher: &quot;Does he also do the self-contradictory but very human: I need help! No, I can do it MYSELF!! *struggles* Help! I always find that one hits me frighteningly close to home.&quot; Tim O'Malley: &quot;He does.&quot; Kimberly Belcher: &quot;To toddlers everywhere: I feel you, buddy. Hang in there. It doesn't get better but it does get more invisible to other human beings.&quot;\" width=\"400\" height=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tim O&#8217;Malley, with his usual insight and good humor, offers <a href=\"http:\/\/churchlife.nd.edu\/2016\/03\/11\/learning-to-say-help\/\">profound insight into Lent<\/a>\u00a0at the new and redesigned Church Life Journal.\u00a0The beginning and end of every Lenten discipline is the same as the beginning and end of many conversations with a toddler: Help!<\/p>\n<p>The self-development myth he names here\u00a0worries me every year: with the cultural context we live in, how do we know <a href=\"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/2014\/03\/03\/fasting-and-dieting\/\">our fasting isn&#8217;t actually dieting<\/a>, that our discipline isn&#8217;t the cult of productivity?<\/p>\n<p>We don&#8217;t know, but we do remind ourselves to keep asking for help.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I need help! 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