Sugar Fast

Last night before sundown Grant and I went to Panera Bread. I got an unsweet tea, a Fiji apple chicken salad, a small bowl of chicken noodle soup and a mac and cheese. Oh and a coffee. This was my last supper. lol

I started a fast from sugar and hopefully meat. (with the exception of turkey since thanksgiving is next week) but meat as a daily sustenance. I did good. I used stevia in my tea and honey in my coffee. But caffeine is also not on the approved list so i won’t be having coffee or tea for the next 40 days either.

Interestingly enough my fast ends on the last day of channukah which is 3 days before the new year. So just in time for 2012. I want to be ready.

The reason I’m fasting is because I’m tired of my brain being numb. I don’t feel like i can think as well as YHWH needs me to. My brain has been high on sugar since I was a kid. The one time I did fast for three days, when my brain came on.. I felt so good. My creativity lit up and I actually felt high because I was thinking so clearly and I’m not used to that.

Sometimes I get frustrated with people. Ok i live in a state of eternal frustration with people. LOL I seek people out to learn from and they all seem just way too busy to answer my questions. Im not blind and I’m not looking for someone to lead me but to help when I can’t think it through. Anyway I found a night a few weeks ago sitting on my bed feeling very down and let down by all the people I know who are able to teach me and just won’t. So, again, I went back to the basic. What did Yeshua do. Im just going to do what He did and it will all work out. Keep in mind at this point I wasn’t really sure what the was. I wasn’t thinking it that far ahead. My bible could have said “Yeshua picked apples” and I would have gone to pick apples.

So I started in Matthew. First thing He did (unless I missed something) besides being born and stuff (which I’ve already done too) is get baptized. I was like… OK I got this. My plan was to just do it in a pool or lake or whatever. I hadn’t worked out all the details. About an hour later, still creeping around the internet at teachers sites, I found this on Maria Merolas page. YAY! He led me straight to clear instructions. I had actually found that page before but didn’t know what to do with it, for some reason.

I did my mikvah and prayer in the bathtub on shabbat Friday November 11th, in a white sundress. As weird as it might sound it was beautiful and refreshing and simple.

At first I was going to do all the first things he did in all 4 gospels and then all the 2nd things He did but I decided that would take more work than necessary so I’m doing Matthew first. I know some of them repeat, tell of the same event in different ways. I may or may not just do that event again. I may find when I get to Mark I need to fast again. Hopefully not. We will see.

So thats why and how I’m fasting. I wish I could do a total fast but I’m not there yet. Ive spent years tearing up my body. So far things are fabulous and the Ruach is with me so stay tuned for praise reports.

Shalom

Stacy