Waste is better than gluttony.

These next couple months I will be focusing on hunger in our world.  Currently I am reading 2 books, Rich Christians in an age of hunger and Changing the face of hunger.  These two books so far have taught me so much about this growing passion of mine, but they have also challenged me to look at my own life.

I have come to the realization in the past few days that I am addicted to sugar.  I crave chocolate.  I think about the next time I can eat a girl scout cookie constantly.  And some how I always seem to have the munchies.  Example: Last night I brought some cookies over to my friends apartment where we watched a movie.  The entire time I was thinking about those cookies.  I literally ate like 7 cookies in one sitting.  That disgusts me, not only because it was bad for my body but because I wasn't actually thinking about the cookie I was eating at that moment, instead I was focused on the next cookie and the next cookie.   That is just one example of one way that I have noticed my addiction.  This is a problem. 

After a long conversation with a good friend of mine today (Robby), he talked me into (well it wasn't that hard) going on a fast.  Not just a fast from sugar but a fast from variety.  You see he did this last year for lent and told me so much about his experiences and all the things he had learned about himself, God and all the blessings we are surrounded with.  The stories he has told me trully have shaped the way I think about food and what a blessing it is, but it wasn't enough obviously because otherwise I wouldn't be in this predicament.  So I decided to do it for myself. 

As of today I will only be eating rice, beans, vegetables, milk, and fruit.  For every meal, every day, for a number of days I haven't decided yet.  And the major dilemma with this is coffee...I need my coffee in the morning to get me going.  So what I have decided thus far is that black coffee will be fine, no sugar no cream. 

One thing that Robby said to me that I will try to remember is that Waste is better than Gluttony. Because if people were not gluttonous in our world there would be not such thing as starvation.  There wouldn't be people who were eating rocks to trick their stomachs.  Thus waste wouldn't be an issue because every person would get enough.
 
So this may be difficult, but I am ready to do it.  I am ready to let God change my life through actually doing something rather than just reading about someone else doing something.  I will definitely be filling all you in on the lessons I will learn as well as my frustrations. 
 
(Also the picture has nothing to do with what I am writing about but I just felt like I needed something pretty and fun!  And it is a good reminder of how beautiful God's creation is!)