Re: Olivia's Update

Hi Willow :),

"After watching the latest video she made I am really concerned about her well being. She has said she has been taking vitamins all along which I don't think is a good thing while fasting. She has said she's hungry in many of her videos and unless she is an exception to the rule her hunger should have gone away long ago which leads me to wonder if she isn't experiencing the return of true hunger and is ignoring it because she's fasting for God."

This was my main concern too Willow. From what i saw of the videos, from day 53 to day 60 she mentioned being extremely hungry each day. I wasn't sure if it was the vitamins creating a false signal or if perhaps true hunger had returned and she reached down and found the will power to resist it. But if it was indeed true hunger, i wanted to encourage her to stop. I don't know, but for me seeing day 75 was encouraging. She seemed to be doing quite a bit better than on day 60.

"Throughout the videos she has said she is fasting for nothing but spiritual reasons, to be closer to God but from what she's said I have to wonder if she is listening to God at all. Its seems her husband is the one behind this fast, I don't know why I get this feeling but I've got it. He seems to be dictating what is will and will not do."

I didn't watch all of the videos but i'm not getting this feeling at all... only that they were both uneducated about fasting going in and that he (believing he was helping to assure her well being" "insisted" that she take vitamins and she (not knowing any better) agreed.

"She has said she fasted for 40 days and then ate the traditional Passover meal which is lamb, bitter herbs, and unleavened bread. After fasting for 40 days I don't know how she was able to partake of Lamb and not have had many problems associated with breaking a fast with meat. Then after only a few days she went on a second fast of 40 days."

Meat and powerade :). It goes hand in hand with not having read the literature as to what the masters teach about fasting.

"The thing I find strange if she is fasting to be closer to God and be the kind of woman God wants her to be is why hasn't she said in one of her videos the spiritual breakthroughs she's had?"

I have a different perspective here. From what i have seen, Olivia is talking about her spiritual breakthroughs quite a bit.

"and she is speaking about fasting for God over and over again. It almost seems like this has been pounded into to her."

pounded into her by her husband? I just believe she really wants to keep her focus on God, so God's name comes up a lot.

"I don't mean any disrespect to her or anybody posting here. I know that fasting for spiritual reasons is valid. Due to the way she's talking in her videos I'm wondering if she is listening to God or if she's listening to her husband and that is a very different thing."

I believe this is very much her fast, not her husbands and that it is under her control, not his. But just that he (again out of concern for her) has made recommendatations (or even has insisted) that she do certain things to "help assure her well being". Taking vitamins, eating meat and drinking powerade. Aside from her following these recommendations (and only i believe because she didn't know the correct path, not because she knew better but bowed to his every wish in spite of it), it seems to me that he is a minor player in this. I get the feeling that if this was all about what he wanted, there would have been no fast at all.

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