Day 4: Water Water Everywhere

I have a confession: Today I got onto the ferry and I saw a potato chip on a seat and for a brief second it crossed my mind to eat it. Please don't judge me!

Yes, I was that hungry. Why? Because my body was throwing a temper tantrum. I decided last night that today I would only drink water the whole day and not break till the next day. My body decided it didn't like the idea and so when I saw the potato chip at 4pm it thought it was a good idea to risk all decorum and health and safety for the sake of a crummy chip. Hmmn! Shaking my head at you stomach, shaking my head!

So why did I decide to only drink water (pauses to take a sip of water). Well, yesterday I started to feel like I needed to jolt my body into remembering that this was actually a fast and not some exciting experiment and what better way to do that than not eat at all. Oh I got my body's attention alright. The most remarkable thing happened though. As I felt my body scream like a toddler, I remembered that I wanted to pray and so I did. I remembered Isaiah 58 and I remembered the cycles I'd said I wanted to deliberately take time to break on my life. I took time to pray about them.

See sometimes, I need my body to physically get in the same posture as my heart so that's exactly what water only did. It was my body exhibiting that it was just as desperate for a change as my soul is. It was my body being in tune with what Tolu reaaaally wants and needs.