To fast is to return our attention to ourselves - our spiritual center - our souls. 

Its easy to lose touch with our center when we allow the outside world to seize our attention with its sensory, sensational, sensual offerings. And when we focus on these things that couple only with our physical selves, we become self-centered. Egocentric.

And, let's not forget, we have real physical needs: hunger, thirst, human connection, and much more. We are not bifurcated creatures whose physical and spiritual sides can be separated - not until death, anyway. We are whole beings. Each of us has a soul and a body, woven inextricably together in the Imago Dei.

Even the Lord's Prayer, as we saw in the previous episode, has a line devoted to asking God to provide our daily bread. So why would we ever spend one or more days shunning that divinely created need?

Fasting has many benefits, but today we will focus on one in particular: that of re-centering - living from the soul.  Fasting is a discipline that in the moment may seem pointless, but in the end is a training exercise that yields spiritual strength.

So let's slow down, and fast.

Source Scripture

Matthew 6:16-18

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