For the last eighteen months or so I’ve been feeling a need to implement more discipline in my life.  Fasting is something that has always interested me not because I would be inclined to do it on the contrary, because I have a mini panic attack when I think of the fact that I’m supposed to go to my yoga class with an empty stomach.  I HATE the idea of going without food.  This being said, there are many mornings I skip breakfast and do fine, but that is because if I want something I just go and get it, if I’m fasting, I don’t have that option.  I so badly want to be unchained to the desires of my flesh, but when push comes to shove so often I take the high road.  Why?  When I know He will give me what I need when I need it. The other thing I’m grappling with is getting up early to spend time with God before the kids get out of bed.  Now I’m not a morning person, many times this summer we stayed in jammies for a good part of the day.  I like to stay in bed even if I’m not sleeping anymore.  WHYYYY God are these the two things I feel convicted to incorporate in to my life?  Fasting and rising early.  God give me the strength.  I cannot do these things on my own.