Dillingham Fountain with Diamond Head behind it.
Good Morning, God. Today is another day at home — and now that a lot of underbrush got cleared away yesterday — maybe today I can sit and plan. Yesterday was all about PROCESSING! A bunch of stuff that had piled up, got done. In fact, I have it all in a basket — ready to take in tomorrow.
So, today? Today I want to fast . . . jog first so as to start burning fat . . . and then fast. And fast FOR more than fast FROM. I love Vickie’s idea of dedicating the day to a friend, or a person in need, or a cause. And I have some in mind. The idea of FOR and not just FROM is helpful in other ways, too. For example, God, it helps me to abstain from food if I reframe it as GIVING my body Time and Energy to PROCESS stuff that has “piled up”. Fast connotes emptiness. . . and empty cries out to be filled. Now, best to fill it with YOU. But if it is with YOU — FOR A FRIEND — or orphaned child — it is easier to picture, to see.
A lot of SEEING is about where we stand when we look. This photo is a shot of the fountain from a slightly different angle than I had before. And that difference was so pleasing that I wanted to reframe it. In this case, the center spout of the fountain is just about perfectly under the peak of Diamond Head. I cropped it to remove the street — reframing it. And that is what I want to do today — with Your Help — to reframe fasting into giving my body the GIFT of PROCESSING TIME. Processing on a deeper level than the processing of yesterday. And I remember going to a 10 day silent retreat right after retiring which gave me time and space to process at a deeper level, still. YOU ARE THE TRUE CLEARER OF UNDERBRUSH AND SWAMPS!
Back to the image of the fountain: YOU are FAR MORE THAN A TAME FOUNTAIN. What I really want is to have Your Rivers of Living Water flowing through me — sweeping away what doesn’t belong! Help me hold on to that image and request, please, God.
Story teller,
A Moment with God 
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