Fast

Some spiritual disciplines I am better at than others. Fasting is not one of them.

I don't like it.

Generally speaking, I do myself and my family more harm than good when fasting. I get grumpy when I'm hungry. My beautiful wife knows this. Whenever we would shop together she made sure that I had something to eat. I also don't enjoy shopping. Put shopping and hunger together? Bad JuJu.

I don't fast very often. I wish that weren't true but it is. It takes something fairly monumental to move me to skip meals (you know, because God isn't enough...). I'm always thankful when the fast is over, both for the ending and the experience.

Jody and I have been looking for houses lately. We have to be out of our house May 1. Today it's April 3 and we've been looking for more than a month. We have a family of 10. That makes house hunting a challenge. We've found several houses that we got excited about. Usually the day prior to finding them they go under contract. Great fun.

We found a house that was a foreclosure that will totally work for our family. Great location. Good price. Moderate amount of work to have it livable. And there are multiple offers. Good time to fast.

We had our offer in by Thursday night. No word on Friday. I decided that we'd have to find out something on Monday. Why not fast until we find out? Great idea. Well, it's Tuesday and still no word.

2 days may be the new starting point for fasting. Day 1 had me focused on myself. Day 2 allowed that to change. I'm hungry. I think I'm hungry for more than just food. I'm hungry for God to move. Not just in our search for a house but in my heart and the church and this city. Crazy ride with what God has been doing in the Jesters lately. Will be interesting to see what's next.