Weekend!

Keeping up with a fast (or any personal commitment really) can take on added difficulty when our schedule gets changed up like it probably does for you on this weekend.  Make a strategy for how you will keep to the fast!  You may need to be sure you have some appropriate snack items around.  One thing I am trying to do is to have some 'free' foods; something I can have whenever so that I am not tempted with something I shouldn't have.  So far for me that has been grapes and pistachio nuts...that may not be your choice but it works for me. 

Let us also remember that all of life is life before our God.  When the schedule changes or we are just plain hungry for something we can't have we need to turn our focus Godward.  Psalm 121 starts out, "I lift up my eyes to the hills.  From where does my help come?  My help comes from the Lord, who made heaven and earth".  The tremendous value of any fast is that when we feel the lack, it can be a driver to look to the Lord.  May that be our focus today whenever we are tempted otherwise!

As a special point of prayer today let's pray for those who continue their jobs through the weekend to take care of us.  I am thinking today especially of those in the medical profession who maintain care around the clock.  Thank you to those who are doctors, nurses, support staff and EMS personnel...we are praying for you!

Another recipe:
Tried a simple recipe from www.ultimatedanielfast.com that Jami and I both enjoyed.  If you look under recipes/vegetables there is a dish called pan roasted broccoli and cauliflower.  Mmm.  I recommend it!