We made it! It wasn't always easy and it certainly wasn't always pretty, especially parts of this past week that had me unintentionally scowling at a box of Swiss Cake Rolls or at my family when they ate any of the million and one foods that were not one of the seven I picked. We persevered though! The goal of less of me and more of the best of life also began to be realized. Growing closer to Christ happened as well when I began to prioritize my spiritual food of prayer and scripture reading and I asked for Him to feed me. He did. I still have a LONG ways to go but isn't that what this life is all about?
In her Day 31 Jen Hatmaker quotes a passage from Richard Rohr's Simplicity:
"On the way to contemplation we do the same thing that Jesus Christ did in the wilderness. Jesus teaches us not to say, "Lord, Lord," but to do the will of his Father. What must primarily concern us is that we do that Jesus has bidden us do. Jesus went into the wilderness and ate nothing for forty days, and made himself empty....Of course, emptiness in and of itself isn't enough. The point of emptiness is to get ourselves out of the way so that Christ can fill us up. As soon as we're empty, there's a place for Christ, because only then are we in any sense ready to recognize and accept Christ as the totally other, who is not me."
I am ready not for this fast to end, but for my search for Him to really and truly begin.
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