Friday Fast

November 9, 2012 By Leave a Comment

Fast from all food and caloric drinks until 5 PM.  Remember that a fast is not something that is meant to weaken us but is rather intended to bring us strength.  Just as lifting weights tears down muscle and makes them temporarily weaker, when we recover from the stress of the lift we are stronger.  It is the same with fasting.  Writer Dallas Willard has pointed out that when Jesus faced Satan in the desert after a forty day fast it wasn’t because Jesus was weak–God had been strengthening him to face his adversary.

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About Ragan Sutterfield

Ragan Sutterfield is a writer, teacher, and agrarian living in his native Arkansas. Ragan explores the connections of sustainable agriculture, health, the body, creation, and contemporary culture through writing, teaching, and speaking. He is the author of the small collection of essays Farming as a Spiritual Discipline and a contributor to the book Sacred Acts: How churches are working to protect the Earth’s climate. Ragan works to live the good life in partnership with his wife Emily and daughter Lillian.