The Importance of Feasting and Fasting

The way that we live fullest is not through the unrestrained gratification of all of our bodily desire. Jesus gave us a table set with a feast to eagerly desire to point all of our good bodily desire toward. When we direct our bodily desires toward Jesus' table, when we use our bodies to love, serve, and worship our souls are enlivened and expanded by those actions. But when we try to feast apart from Jesus' table,. our souls are suffocated and shriveled by those actions... Lust acted upon strangles the soul. The vitality and power of Christianity is lost when we fail to integrate our bodies into its practice by intelligent, conscious choice and steadfast intent.