Waste Is Better Than Gluttonyfocusing on hunger in our world. Currently I am reading 2 books, Rich
Christians in an age of hunger and Changing the face of hunger. These
two books so far have taught me so much about this growing passion of
mine, but they have also challenged me to look at my own life.
I have come to the realization in the past few days that I am addicted
to sugar. I crave chocolate. I think about the next time I can eat a
girl scout cookie constantly. And some how I always seem to have the
munchies. Example: Last night I brought some cookies over to my
friends apartment where we watched a movie. The entire time I was
thinking about those cookies. I literally ate like 7 cookies in one
sitting. That disgusts me, not only because it was bad for my body but
because I wasn’t actually thinking about the cookie I was eating at
that moment, instead I was focused on the next cookie and the next
cookie. That is just one example of one way that I have noticed my
addiction. This is a problem.
After a long conversation with a good friend of mine today (Robby), he
talked me into (well it wasn’t that hard) going on a fast. Not just a
fast from sugar but a fast from variety. You see he did this last year
for lent and told me so much about his experiences and all the things
he had learned about himself, God and all the blessings we are
surrounded with. The stories he has told me trully have shaped the way
I think about food and what a blessing it is, but it wasn’t enough
obviously because otherwise I wouldn’t be in this predicament. So I
decided to do it for myself.
eating rice, beans, vegetables, milk, and fruit. For every meal, every
day, for a number of days I haven’t decided yet. And the major dilemma
with this is coffee…I need my coffee in the morning to get me going.
So what I have decided thus far is that black coffee will be fine, no
sugar no cream.
One thing that Robby said to me that I will try to remember is that
Waste is better than Gluttony. Because if people were not gluttonous in
our world there would be not such thing as starvation. There wouldn’t
be people who were eating rocks to trick their stomachs. Thus waste
wouldn’t be an issue because every person would get enough.
God change my life through actually doing something rather than just
reading about someone else doing something. I will definitely be
filling all you in on the lessons I will learn as well as my
frustrations.
