Practicing Faith Part 2: Feasting & Fasting
Exploring My Strange Bible
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The Importance of Not Eating
Fasting is a way of embodying that frailty because when you don't eat, what do you think about? If you have meat and fruit like over two days, you're thinking about food quite a lot. It seems to me that's at least part of the meaning of fasting in these moments. And so in the biblical tradition like it's just totally appropriate response. God intervenes in your life, he redirects it, don't eat. So no, it's just natural. The second bucket, it by far the vast majority.
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