The 40 Day Fast: The Starting Line

Posted on 06.21.07 in The 40 Day Fast and there are

This is the picture that started The 40 Day Fast.

And that is the little girl that broke my heart.

How could I see her pain and not do something about it?

How can I know that this very minute there is a child somewhere in the world, starving - in their weeping mother’s arms and not be moved?

In all honesty, I’m usually moved...but then I move on.

It’s hard for me to go from inspiration to action. And it makes me mad and sad that I think it’s hard.

Too often, I wait for other things to move me. A movie. A song. A book. ....a picture.

But I think God brings those things into our lives, not to move us to action, but to bring us to the line.

The line where we, ourselves, have to decide that there are things in this world that are more important than our comfort.

Through the course of this 40 day fast, I hope we’ll all be challenged to step across that line.

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