40 days and fasting
Back in 2017 right after my 60 day juice fast, I wrote this: 40 days. It is a Lenten journey. Yet, my Juice journey is not finished. Why the 40 days? Why did Jesus fast for that long in the desert? It takes us that long to lose all of the cravings. It takes that long for our spirits to calm down and lose the noise. It is such a short time to spend to reap those benefits. The spiritual side of the fast is not something that is often talked about. When I did a 100 days of fasting, it was frustrating after 60 days. The body really started to defend the weight. I made some mistakes during the time from 60 to 100 days. Ghost pepper sauces without food in the stomach on a juice fast will lay you over in horrendous pain. Been there, done that. The clarity of purpose that comes with the extended fast is so subtle that most miss that it happened. It is the same softness of sound that leaf makes when falling, it touches upon the river. There is a sound that it makes. It is hard to hear over...