Days 39 & 40

Well, we have finally arrived at Day 40!! This fast has enlightened and changed my perspective on several things which I have not given much thought to in the past. One of the not-so-amazing things which was really driven home to me is how bombarded we constantly are by that which will kill us. If we go into public, we are constantly surrounded by every imaginable fast food there is - hamburgers, hot dogs, chinese, mexican, pizza, fried chicken, chocolate, soda, etc. If we turn on a television or radio - it's there. We are constantly being reminded to create and satisfy our addictions - that's all this is because we don't NEED these things - we WANT these things and it's killing us! We truly have to decide whether these things are worth dying for - because either way we choose - we're going to get our wish.

I went into this fast, in the beginning, as a cleanse. However, as I got deeper into it and decided to go 40 days, it became a spiritual quest. The reason this is significant is because in the beginning I was using dewormer, LBB, some oils, and a significant amount of orange juice. As it became a spiritual fast, I stopped using everything except a small amount of orange juice and water. The last week was just water.

When you fast, most people will get what we refer to as the 'fasting mouth', meaning that as you cleanse, you will often taste and see it on your tongue. It can be quite disgusting and quite often you will taste metals as you cleanse the metals out of your system that have been trapped for years.

Because of the way I was doing this and how hard I was pushing myself, by Day 37, my mouth and breath had become extremely strong with the smell of metal - to the point that my husband could smell it half way across the room. I was getting pretty weak and when my son-in-law, who is studying medicine, found out about it, he really got concerned. He said this was no longer normal cleansing - this was my blood beginning to break down and release it's iron. I'm not sure if he was right or not, but I knew, because of how I was feeling that it was time to start firing up my digestive system again, so I started drinking a variety of different juices.

Day 38 I began to eat some fruit and on Day 39 I had a salad. A few hours after I ate it, my intestines were hurting pretty bad, but it ended with some good results. When I could go to the bathroom, I dumped a large amount of black, gelactinous muck. I realized that as I was fasting a lot of the old material had broken loose, but was not pushed out - when I put the roughage through my intestines - it acted like a scouring pad and pushed all of the old debris out.

Each day this week has been a struggle to build my strength back, but I realize it is because of the way I chose to do this - if you were to continue on supplements and juice - I don't think you would have the difficulty I am having now. However, in my case, it was something I needed to do. There was much I needed to learn and this was the only way I felt I could do it.

I am thankful for this journey - it has answered alot of questions - and it has helped me to learn alot about myself.

The spirits which inhabit our bodies are so much more than we allow them to be. They are extremely intelligent, highly developed entities which, under normal circumstances, are trapped in an immature, spoiled body, who is only interested in physical satisfactions, such as eating. When we learn to overcome the 'natural man' and allow that spirit to step into the lead, we begin to see life and everything around us in a totally different perspective.

For those who have been following this journey I hope it has helped you to examine your own life and figure out if you are headed in the direction you really want to go. There have been so many times in my life that I have compromised to make the people around me more comfortable, but I realize now more than ever that we can never truly help anyone else until we are comfortable with ourselves. And we can't be comfortable with ourselves unless we are living according to the truths which we know to be right - to thine own self be true.

That doesn't mean that we have to do it in a 'in your face' type of way, but we have to follow our own path while we help and serve everyone we can along the way.



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