Daniel Fast - Day Five

June 14, 2013

Day Five

Woke up today barely able to move. My lower back and legs are in great pain. I worked on lying in varying positions. Lying down increases the pain in my legs.  Standing takes away the leg pain, but my back pain lingers.  After a rub with Bio-Freeze without relief, I caved in and took some pain killers.  I can function again and am doing some gentle work around the house.
 
Breakfast this morning was Breakfast Cookies.  Seemed like people sorta grazed their way through the kitchen for lunch before heading out to the beach with David this afternoon. I enjoyed some reheated taco soup and a salad from the lettuce I picked from our garden this week topped with raw cauliflower, almonds, and diced green apples.

I've been getting in some time in the word today.  I keep wondering how the Lord is going to just *show* me how I'm supposed to eat. What diet I'm supposed to follow. What plan is the right one for me.  It seems like hocus-pocus to think He's going to flash a word in my face and I'll hear angels singing.  Well, I guess that is like hocus-pocus. It doesn't work that way. 

Being in the word DOES work, however.  I'm not sure if others do this, but I often think, "There's not really a specific answer in here for me. I'm going to have to find some vague principle and apply it. Should I even bother looking? Where would I even start?"  And so goes my one-sided conversation.

God's word is never void.  Just pick a word. I did.  Indulgence.  Led me right to the book of Colossians.  Right to beautiful truths revealing the ugliness that the Lord is cleansing from my life right now.  I'm going to keep working on simplifying this fast so I can enjoy more of these rich truths He has waiting for me. 

*Finished the day with baked potatoes, green beans sautéed in garlic, and a big salad with fixin's. I skipped the potato, but munched on the skin from BabyKinz's potato.  David pulled out the Woven Wheat crackers and topped them with peanut butter and all fruit spread. I had two.  Truly, peanut butter and jelly is one of my hardest things to resist. I was very proud to have only had two.