17 days down 4 more to go! I'm still feeling sick, but I think that I am getting better. It only have a little cold, but it has still left me with very little energy. Since last weekend I have done hardly anything except come home right after work. Today however was Ultimate Practice, and I couldn't miss that! I actually feel great right now, but we'll see about tomorrow. Today and yesterday were actually two of the hardest days so far. One of the teachers at school asked me to prepare a presentation about lunch in America for today. I was happy to oblige, but that meant that I was looking at pictures of food for several hours straight. Not fun! But I made it through, and now I am done with that presentation. Hopefully I can avoid food for the next few days.
Fun fact: When you fast for a period of time your tongue actually turns kind of white. It is a little weird, but apparently it is normal (I'm not including any pictures of that). So right now I am looking forward to the end of my fast, which means that soon I will start planning out my eating schedule. When you end a fast, especially one of this duration, you cannot go back to eating anything as soon as you want. If I was to do that after this fast, I might actually die, but there are also spiritual reasons for not ending a fast as soon as possible. It is important to transition slowly back to eating so that your body can adjust and you maintain the good affects and good habits that you picked up during the fast. During the fasting time I exchanged a lot of my eating time for time with God, and I want to make sure that I maintain that focus. After my last fast, a ten day fast, I had a specific eating plan for the end of my fast, and I will expand that for the end of this fast. I will go into that a bit more in my future blog posts.
The devotional that I am using is meant to be used at the beginning of the year, and one of the purposes of it is to choose a word for the year. Even though it isn't January, I thought that it would still be good to choose a word. So without further ado, let me announce my long awaited word of the year. And the word is . . . "Transformed"!!!!!! I love this word, because it is something which the Bible requires of us, but it is not something that we can do. God is the one who transforms us, and it is something of which I need to be constantly reminded. It is very important for me to resist trying to do things on my own, and to instead allow God to work through me. The theme verse which accompanies this word is Romans 12:2
"And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God." Romans 12:2
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