Those New Year's Resolutions

Today I want to discuss those New Year's resolutions.

Yeah, you remember, the one you made about losing weight. The one that's been derailed for three months now.

It's time to pick it up and start again. As we used to say in Weight Watchers, wipe the cookie crumbs off your chin and start over.

I know, the next question, what am I doing?

Well, to be honest, I was washing dishes on Ash Wednesday and contemplating fasting.

No, no, no, not the kind of fasting where you just don't eat. Fasting is more than just not eating. You can fast anything. The point is to fast something that's getting in the way of your life -- physical, mental, spiritual.

Sigh, I was washing dishes and then it came to me.

Sugar.

I need to fast sugar.

Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yes. So for 40 days, I'm fasting added sugar. No sugar in my coffee (fake sugar is OK). No donuts, no cookies, no brownies, no candy, no cake, no chocolate.

The funny thing is, 10 days into this, I'm really not having a hard time with it. I expected to have a hard time, especially where I work. There's candy, there's cookies, there's brownies, there's food everywhere!!

I haven't seen any effect on my weight. But I'm not doing this for my weight. I'm doing it because I got a Word that I need to do this.

Those New Year's resolutions are doomed right from the moment they blossom in your mind. But a fast, according to the Word, that's a different matter...