Day 2 of 4; Hunger Sets In*

i am fasting...4 days, no food. just fluids (water, grape juice, coffee, orange juice, tequila**). i never thought i'd ever fast, honestly. that just seemed like a crazy idea...and i love food way too much! but, upon reading a simple comment from sara (the blog lurker), she motivated ryan and i...and God placed something on our hearts. last week, ryan and i slept out in the freezing cold (click here) to gain a better perspective of what it must feel like (not that one night can even compare) to be homeless. but prior to our jaunt to the outdoors, i filled my belly with enough food to feed a small family. i know God is placing these things in my life for a reason. i have always sat back and wondered what it must feel like to have this or that situation happen to me. but i've learned, you'll never know the feeling from just sitting around and thinking about it....you must do it.

0nce a month we feed the homeless downtown (pancakes with a side of love), and i hear stories and see pictures of children in south african squatter camps grateful just to have a sandwich that someone made for them (likely their only meal of the day), and i feel compassion. i want things to be different for all of them.

i also want food. i haven't had anything to eat since dinner on monday night...and i won't eat again until saturday morning. everytime i feel hunger (which i imagine will be quite often come tomorrow and friday) i am going to thank God. thank Him for ryan and sara. thank Him for my wife. thank Him for kyle, stef and tiff, who relay their amazing stories of struggle, heartache, hunger and victory from those very same squatter camps. thank Him for the homeless that we feed. thank Him for the people who "get it". thank Him for the many others who don't. and i'm going to pray to Him. pray for change. pray for eyes to be opened to what else is out there. pray that someday, someone will see possibilites and change, just as i am finally beginning to see.

everytime i think of this subject, for some reason 4 lines of a john mayer song always pop into my head:

"One day our generation

Is gonna rule the population

So we keep on waiting

Waiting on the world to change"

i can't wait...

*thanks ryan for allowing me to borrow your title!

**no, not really tequila