will love us if we change, but God loves us so that we can change. Penitential practices and disciplines [like fasting] enable us to appropriate and make real in our lives the freedom given through grace.”9 No one puts this montage together better than Amy Johnson Frykholm. “Fasting,” she concludes, “is about three things: attentiveness, compassion and freedom.”10 With so many witnesses before us, is there anything left to be said? I think there is. Allow me to lay my cards on the table right