Oct 17 2008
Prayer and fasting… not so fast!
The Anchoress has been praying and fasting, including giving up bread and noodles and other lovely foods. I find prayer and fasting difficult at times, but giving up certain foods isn’t hard at all.
The secret is that I LIKE food. Today being Friday, I had no meat. But I had an apple and an egg & cheese sandwich on potato bread for lunch. And for dinner, I had a killer eggdrop soup. I added chives, green onions, tofu, and salsa. Mmmmm!
In college, I couldn’t stand most cafeteria food. But I liked to try new things, and I could eat anything on rice.
And I do mean anything.
One summer my pal Michele and I subletted a room in a frat house. Money was tight, so we ate college student fixin’s. I ate toast for breakfast, fruit for lunch, and “suicide rice” for dinner. For the uninitiated, that’s rice with whatever you have on hand. If you’re lucky, it’s beef bouillion cubes or soy sauce. If you’re not, it’s pickle relish or some horseradish sauce that one of the guys gave you from their trip to Arby’s.
But I still ate it.
My prayer life is kind of like that, too. Sometimes I think of someone I should pray for and it’s easy to send a Shout Up. Other times, I literally have nothing to say and my mind goes blank. But I give it the ol’ college try.
