Fasting is about making room. About letting go of a crutch that allows us to get away from inner discomfort, to a place of temporary release from inner pain or disease…though of course it is short lived. It is about food, or perhaps noise, or TV, or drinking, well just about anything. Letting something go to see what happens can be scary. For then we may experience emptiness that in the past has been filled, but now allowed to be and not ran from. People are often surprised when they fast, at the results, The healing and the joy that can flow from this kind of conscious withdrawal of things that keeps us from what is really important for many is unexpected…..but hey we all love surprises.
Br. Mark Dohle, OCSO
