Fasting for Lunch

Yesterday I fasted giving up lunch. My original plan was to use the time in prayer but God had other plans for me. There were some urgent needs of others that needed tending to. So, honestly, it wasn't a big deal. I was consumed by the immediacy of these pastoral moments that I wasn't thinking about the fact that I wasn't eating until I had time to sit down and rest. Then I was consumed by the desire to consume - a twinkie! Part of fasting is taking the feeling of hunger, the "I need desperately to eat" kind of feeling and comparing it to a spiritual hunger for God. Did you know that when people fast from food for long periods of time that they eventually lose their hunger pangs? Maybe it is the same way in our spiritual lives. When we go for long periods of time without feeding on God's word we lose our appetite for God. It is time to get that feeling back! I am going to try fasting again this week. I will report back. Check out the blog entries of Donna and Jenn on Unifyer. Feel free to leave a comment here. How is your practice of the spiritual disciplines going?