{"id":32130,"date":"2026-04-01T16:39:18","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T22:39:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/?p=32130"},"modified":"2026-04-01T20:18:36","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T02:18:36","slug":"new-heart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/2026\/04\/new-heart\/","title":{"rendered":"New heart"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Until this year, I’d never “given up something” for Lent. I’m not going to tell you what I walked away from and I’m not hinting anything with the above photo. Initially, it was a difficult change, until just a few days went by and I experienced positive results.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects of this life change have been the quieting of my mind and the softening of my heart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I see people in my faith working to have a more holy approach to Easter. Looking back over my first year of taking 40 days to prepare for Easter, I’m glad I made the effort. I’m a river of emotion about Jesus this week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and do them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And ye shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers; and ye shall be my people, and I will be your God.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ezekiel 36:26-28<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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