Fasting. 2 days in.

[magnetaress]

Originally Posted by Gwaihir [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I'm over here reading the story of the Samaritan woman at the well (John) and I notice Jesus never serves his ego self.

Like, there was a donkey down in the town in synoptic gospels and Jesus sends his disciples to fetch it, because fetching himself would force him to deviate from the right hand path of service to others, to the left hand path of serving himself, and then he asks the samaritan woman to fetch him some water too.

Unironically, he's sitting on Jacob's well,and he could easily have got his own water from a practical standpoint but rather chose to request it of another so that both parties had a chance to serve another instead of themselves.

There's a story here if you dig it up carefully. The sad part is, she appears to run off preaching his annointedness and it doesn't say if she got him the water or not, so we'll never gno if she seized the opportunity at enlightenment.

I see your point. The fasting is going well. Back at day 2 again.

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This has got to be my favorite card. I wonder why? Bad? Good? Neither? Fate? Time to shower? Yes.

I should serve more. Without egotism or anointing Jesus too much and running off forgetting about the water.

Also, I will consider asking for water. Even if it's refused, forgotten, or punished.

[Gwaihir]

Yeah. I was thinking about this cosmic concept the other day, and was considering it against the aspiration for my wife and I to increase our capital over the next year so we could pony up a down payment on our house.

And like a studious investor of my talents, I've been attempting to invest in good faith recently, so instead of asking for a blessing on my investments from the Lord, I reached out to a good friend of mine and asked him to pray a blessing upon our finances.

In this manner,I wasn't being a bad christian by asking the Lord for things for myself,and I gave my friend the opportunity to serve another at the same time.

I'm confident this will turn out well.