As Opening Day has finally arrived, I’m sure most of you (players/coaches/umpires) have set certain goals that you are hoping to achieve this upcoming season. As you think about these goals, I imagine that most of them are related to your own personal performance or the performance of your team.

This is a great time for improving your skills as a player, but it is also a great time for cultivating new practices and habits that will help us improve our character. Or to put that another way, new practices and habits that will help us become more like Jesus.

The New Year offers us the ceremonial fresh start that motivates us to actually start implementing new things into our daily routines and weekly rhythms.

Over the last eight months, our Thursday Morning Group has committed to fasting once a week together. It’s been a great learning experience, and even though I still feel like an amateur when it comes to fasting, I thought it would be helpful to share some of what I’ve learned.

Whatever your goals may be, we all know that there are things in our lives that we need to alter or do better, and the New Year offers us the ceremonial fresh start that motivates us to actually start implementing these things into our daily routines and weekly rhythms.