Well, thank the LORD my fast has finally begun.  I think I wrote in my journal a couple times that I was starting and I never got around to it.  The only thing that got around was a fried chicken sandwich to my mouth.  But that is over and done with…for at least 40 days.  Well, since I started Sunday, technically 38 days.  If you read this on Friday then it will be about 35 days...ahh...shucks you get the point.  Shucks?  Does anyone really say that?

And I know I always say this at the beginning…but I will say it again…I pray that I can continue the same basic patterns after the fast is over.  I mean, I am on my second day and I am not hungry at all.  I know it is early, but I sometimes think I eat, just…because.  Does that make sense?  I may not really be hungry, but if there is some food available…I am down to eat.  I just eat.  And every time I fast, I remind myself that I don’t have to eat.  But, whatever…I always talk a good game when I am in the midst of it.  After the test of fasting, comes the test of maintaining.  The maintaining of spiritual growth, of healthy eating and of just plain discipline. 

So, my atheist friend blocked me.  He was mad that I wasn’t agreeing to engage in an argument about GOD.  Why should I have?  He was so ready to debate every little nook and cranny of every word that I said.  I at least wanted to become friends before we got into the touchy subject of GOD.  Actually, I didn’t even know how he heard about me.  I thought he just contacted me and came straight out and told me that he was the world’s most unshakable atheist.  I was like …uhhh…okay.  But, then I found out that when I was sending out friend requests…he was one of the ones my automatic requester requested.  Woa, I am talking some serious MYSPACE language.  I am a geek.  I am a MYSPACE A HOLIC.  Wow!  I am scared now. 

Anyhoo, so it turned out that it was me that contacted him first (by accident).  So, his response to me wasn’t totally out of the blue.  It was indeed strange, but not all the way.  I shall remember to pray for him, though.  I pray that I remember o pray for him.  Oh, that reminds me.  I should really bounce.  I have to read my PURPOSE DRIVEN LIFE.  No, this journal is not a rerun.  I know that I was reading that great book before.  This is actually the fourth or fifth time I have started to read it.  I have only finished it once.  But the key for me is to actually read that mug for forty days in a row.  That seems to be a problem for me.  It has not been accomplished by me yet.  UNTIL NOW.  This time will be the time or my name is not THE GREAT ONE!  Wait a minute…my name is NOT called THE GREAT ONE.  So, forget that I ever mentioned anything about my name.

But as for me adn my house, we will seve the Lord.

Keep It natural.