A Bit Extreme?

Does anyone else out there need to be reminded that 

SUNNY DAYS are just AHEAD?

The prediction at the beginning of the season:

Colder temperatures and SNOW.

I think we've had 2 days of snow that was gone by mid-morning.

I do declare, I think it's rained 4 out of 7 days since October.

That may be stretching it a bit, but I can tell you this girl is ready for SPRING!

This year we did Christmas on Christmas Eve morning.

I think it may be a new tradition.  

Because she knows how much we love tea parties, 

my sister-in-law gave all the "littles" Santa and Elf mugs.

Look at these little hands.  

And those pinkies!

It was morning and they were all 

smiles and giggles with anticipation.

We gathered mid-morning for a brunch.

My favorite memories involve food-lots of it- and family.

It's no wonder that food is our go-to.'

Birthdays

Cake and Ice Cream

New Years Day

Black-eyed peas, pork, greens

Valentine's Day

Candy

Independence Day (Memorial Day, Veteran's Day, Labor Day...)

Hamburgers and Hot Dogs, baked beans, Grilled Corn, 

BBQ, Ribs...

add to or take away from

Shoot, we even have a food gathering at Halloween. 

Chili and Hot Dogs.  

And these don't include the many events we attend from 

November-December. 

We have a big family on my hubby's side. 

We had a birthday gathering every month of the year

for more than one birthday. 

There wasn't just one cake either. 

We had cake(s), pies, cookies, candy,

a whole table of just desserts. 

We celebrate life and death and everything in between with food.

(Funny thing:  Every time I have tried to type "food," my fingers 

have hit the "g" and I've corrected "good."  

Yelp, I'd say, "yummy."  

Thus far, one of my favorite chapters in the book is

Day 5:  Fasting and Feasting.

A few days into my last fast, I was putting dishes away when I noticed two of our family Bibles on the kitchen counter.  My husband's big, blue Bible and the slender, brown, leather-bound one that I usually keep in my purse.  As my stomach growled, I found myself inspired.  Immediately I pulled out my prettiest cake stand and placed it on the countertop, stacking the Bibles on it.  Together they looked like a multi-tiered cake on display.  I smiled. 

Over the next thirty-five days, I kept the cake stand front and center as a reminder.

  

When I found myself bored and looking for something to nibble on, 

I was reminded to feast on the Word.

Each time I was tempted to mindlessly grab a handful of sugar-coated something, I'd grab my well-worn Bible instead. 

Fasting from sugar and feasting on God's Words became the theme of my afternoon and evenings-anytime of the day or night that my stomach growled.

The 40-Day Sugar Fast, author Wendy Speake

Going in to the 4th week of my fast, I'm more hungry than I have been. 

The past few days, I've had to resist and resist and resist. 

On my way to work this morning, I began to ask myself why?

Why so hard all of a sudden?

Why harder than last week?

The answer came in the stillness.

"What are you feasting on?"

A Facebook group member said, 

"You're still detoxing."

Well you got that right!

There's so many layers to my mess.

I knew. 

The past couple of days, 

I've spent more time on Facebook than I have in THE BOOK.

Scroll and zone out so as not to face the fears and anxieties. 

Some may think that I've gone a little overboard 

and that this Sugar Fast is a bit extreme or drastic. 

Well, we all know I'm a bit extreme anyway. 

Smile:)

Bill Bright, an American evangelist said,

"There is a God-shaped vacuum in the heart of every man which

cannot be filled by any created thing, but only by God the Creator, 

made known through Jesus Christ."

Wendy says, 

"God is eager to rush into all the empty places we long to fill. 

God has the power to turn our hollow places into a hallowed place."

She urges us to not only to give Him the food we consume, 

but to offer Him everything we run to instead of Him.

Food for Thought?