Fasting or Feasting — A MetaSpiritual Perspective on Lent
And a Special 'Feast or Fast' Flowchart
From a spiritual perspective, Lent stands for a voluntary retreat from the world to prepare for our resurrection from false beliefs, error thinking, and the denial of our innate divinity. You can read more about our approach to Lent in our Blog articles Ash Wednesday: A MetaSpiritual Perspective and What should You Be giving Up For Lent?
From our perspective -- MetaSpiritually speaking -- there is only one kind of fasting: abstaining from error thoughts, choices, and actions that dampen the awareness of our oneness with Spirit. The dieting we advocate during Lent is dieting from doubts, fasting from fear, abstaining from believing we are unworthy, and eliminating the thinking that we are sinful by nature.
The Words: FAST vs. FEAST
Join us in exploring the words ‘Fast’ and ‘Feast!’ Notice something very interesting about these two words:
- Fast and Feast: there’s only one letter difference. One letter added. But what a difference that letter makes!
We've been reacquainted about how important a single letter can be, as Cher has been playing Words With Friends. In this game (similar to Scrabble), you can think you’re out of the game – totally behind. Then you get this amazing opportunity to play only one letter – but it’s a high-scoring letter – and it links between two other words to create a new word – and if you’re lucky, it’s on a square where you get triple points for the letter, and if you’re really lucky, you get triple points for the whole word – and suddenly your score zooms! What a difference one letter can make!
Well, it’s the same thing with the addition of an ‘e’ in the word FAST. It changes everything!
As we thought about this, we realized the ‘e’ could stand for all kinds of things.
- For example, it could stand for Energy ... because when you feast on an attitude, action, or belief, you give it energy (as opposed to denying energy to it when you fast!).
- Or it could stand for Enrichment, because when you feast on Truth, you’re definitely enriched from a spiritual perspective.
- It could even stand for Excitement, because the more we feast on Spiritual Truths, the more we see Principle working in our lives – and we can’t help but get excited!
But when it came down to it, we decided that for us, the ‘e’ in Feast stands for Enlightenment — because as we feast more and more on attitudes, actions, and beliefs that are spiritual in nature, we continue to move closer and closer to enlightenment: that place of absolute Oneness — NO separation between our human self and our Divine Nature.
This week, spend some quiet time in meditation, asking yourself what attitudes, beliefs, or actions you have that are not congruent with your spiritual growth — and decide to FAST from them. Then remember the power of adding an E ~ So you can…
- Feast on Fasting from all forms of self-defeating thoughts, words, choices and actions!
- Feast on Enlightenment!
- Feast on Your Divine Genealogy!
Feast on Y[Universal Harmony!
A Flowchart to Help You Know when to Fast and When to Feast ... and How to Do It!
We've create a powerful FEAST or FAST Flowchart to give you a structured way to evaluate what's working for you, what's not working, and how to fix it! Click here to download your own copy of our Fasting & Feasting Flowchart.
