Last week I wrote that starting Feb. 12, our family is going to limit our food intake to 7 foods for 7 days and follow with 3 more weeks of limited foods.
The natural question is one that my friends are asking--why?
The challenge came from reading the book entitled 7, but here are our reasons:
- As Jen Hatmaker has said, we want to simplify life so that God can be amplified.
- We want to be reminded that an overwhelming number in our world have limited foods accessible and are hungry. Here are some links for inspiration: The Poverty Diet (what American hunger is like), What the World Eats--photo essay from Time (pay special attention to picture #3)
- We want to take time to learn about countries where hunger is an overwhelming problem and take time to pray. I'm going to make 30 cards with 30 countries and several facts about that country. If I can figure out how to share those cards, I will!
- We want to spiritually grow from experiencing less.
Some of you were curious about the foods we chose. Our family is varying just a little from the ones that Jen chose, but we're not doing it as long as she did so nutrition became slightly less important. Our 7 foods are:
- Chicken
- Rice
- Pears
- Spinach
- Whole wheat bread
- Eggs
- Onion
After our first week is over, we'll limit our foods to chicken, fish, fruits, veggies and whole wheat bread. (I know this isn't a big deal to lots of you, but our family currently does too much pre-prepared, processed foods. It will be a challenge that's good for us!)
I have several friends on this journey with me, and I think part of this will be learning lessons about fasting. Have any of you fasted? What lessons have you learned through this discipline?
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1 comment:
AMy, this is so interesting! Can you tell us a little about your meal plans for the first week? I was a BIT surprised to see "onion" as one of the 7 foods. :)
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