{"id":738,"date":"2012-08-17T01:00:32","date_gmt":"2012-08-17T07:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/soulwod\/?p=738"},"modified":"2012-08-16T15:31:00","modified_gmt":"2012-08-16T21:31:00","slug":"friday-fast-creating-an-opening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/soulwod\/2012\/08\/friday-fast-creating-an-opening\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday Fast: Creating an Opening"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>Fast from all food and caloric drinks until 5 PM<\/p>\n<p>As you fast, center your attention on using the emptiness of your mealtimes as an opening for God. \u00a0If we always fulfill our cravings there is no opportunity for something new to come in. \u00a0Today, as you resist those cravings ask God to show you what new things might fulfill the hungers of your life.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fast from all food and caloric drinks until 5 PM As you fast, center your attention on using the emptiness of your mealtimes as an opening for God. \u00a0If we always fulfill our cravings there is no opportunity for something new to come in. \u00a0Today, as you resist those cravings ask God to show you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1112,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[95,19,153],"class_list":["post-738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fast","tag-friday-fast","tag-hunger","tag-opening"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - 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