Today is the first day of Ramadan. As I understand it, Ramadan is the ninth month of the Islamic calendar. It is a month of fasting; a time to develop patience, humility and understanding. I ran across this tidbit many years ago, when I was a teenager haunting the library shelves. I couldn’t imagine how anyone could fast for an entire month and still live. To me, fasting meant going without food or drink. It was an enormous struggle once a month to go from lunch on Saturday to lunch on Sunday without eating or drinking something. I was fairly certain I’d shrivel up and blow away if I tried it for much longer than that. But the Muslims don’t fast in exactly the same way Mormons do. They go without eating or drinking from sunup to sundown. After the sun sets, I suppose, anything goes.
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