{"id":573,"date":"2021-09-17T21:13:34","date_gmt":"2021-09-18T01:13:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/darkestlight.org\/b\/?p=573"},"modified":"2021-09-17T21:14:19","modified_gmt":"2021-09-18T01:14:19","slug":"fasting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/darkestlight.org\/b\/fasting\/","title":{"rendered":"Fasting"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

“The outward man perishes through fasting and self-control, but the more he does so, the more the inward man is renewed…”<\/p>-St Gregory Palamas<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Since becoming Orthodox one of the things I have failed at pretty consistently is fasting. To even say I\u2019ve failed at it might be misleading, as it might imply that I\u2019ve often tried to keep it. I\u2019d tried a bit here and there, but never did very well, and then seemed to just give up on it entirely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, naturally, it is one of the things that I am trying to get better at. This was my second week of actually trying to fast on Wednesday and Friday. And I think I did a decent job. I won\u2019t comment on it too much, I certainly don\u2019t want to try to make myself seem good. On the contrary, I\u2019m just trying to stop doing so poorly and actually make an effort.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It may be obvious, but I\u2019ve also been sure to make an effort to pray more on fasting days. That\u2019s gone well also. I feel like it really is making a difference.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Try dedicating more time to prayer in the coming week. And fast, at least fast something. I think you\u2019ll find it will make a difference if you really try.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“The outward man perishes through fasting and self-control, but the more he does so, the more the inward man is renewed…” -St Gregory Palamas Since becoming Orthodox one of the things I have failed at pretty consistently is fasting. To even say I\u2019ve failed at it might be misleading, as it might imply that I\u2019ve … Continue reading Fasting<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spirituality"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkestlight.org\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkestlight.org\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkestlight.org\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkestlight.org\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkestlight.org\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=573"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/darkestlight.org\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":574,"href":"https:\/\/darkestlight.org\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573\/revisions\/574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkestlight.org\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkestlight.org\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkestlight.org\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}