Sun on the unjust
Love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who mistreat you; for he makes his sun rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the just and the unjust.
The reason he gives is the remarkable part. Love your enemies not because it is noble, or because it will change them, but because that is what God is like and you are meant to resemble your parent. The sun does not check credentials before rising. Christ consciousness is, in one sense, exactly this: an awareness that has stopped sorting the world into deserving and undeserving, because the love that holds everything is prior to the sorting. When you pray for the person who wronged you, you are not doing them a favor. You are stepping into a larger mind.
Today's practice
Name one person you resent. Say their name aloud and ask that good come to them. Do this every day for the rest of the forty. Notice how the request changes, and how you do.
The fast
Daily fast, Daniel table. Eat gently after yesterday.
By the calendar, today is Day ?.