Fasting and Grace

Fasting is voluntary and conscious abstinence - the non-indulgence of an appetite.

Consider soul fasting: what thoughts would you abstain from? what emotions would you abstain from? what behaviors would you abstain from?

Fasting requires we endure suffering for some time. If we have faith that the suffering will metamorphose into joy, can we choose to fast more willingly.

If you fast as a spiritual practice, please seek guidance and support. Find someone who will listen to your process with compassion.

Do not fast on a whim. Fasting is very serious business. You are putting your digestive organs to sleep whether the organs are in your gut or in your soul. You need to know why you are choosing to abstain, you need to keep a fasting journal, you need to set a time frame that will support you being successful - your forty days may be forty minutes. Think of measured time or life time or destiny time. Is your fasting successful because it is about measured time? Is it about changing your lifetime? Or is it about awakening your destiny time.

Christ-filled fasting follows baptism and relates to awakening to destiny.

Fasting is accompanied by prayer.

GRACE: Create a state of grace - go into the wide open spaces of your heart where you find the balanced and serene meeting of spirit and matter. In this place of grace you hold your selfhood and destiny with infinite reverence. Grace is a light radiating integrity, love and freedom.

Find your heart place, feel the grace and write about what you are about to receive.