40 days and 40 nights — Day 6

Aug 14, 2010 | Notes On The Journey

6:15pm A wonderful day so far with my spiritual family at One Spirit Interfaith Seminary and with my daughters and granddaughter up at the family country house in Putnam Valley. How blessed do I feel to have all this abundance. Today I am much with the freedom of not...

40 days and 40 nights — Day 5

Aug 13, 2010 | Notes On The Journey

9:14am So far so good today. Remembered to ask Spirit’s help. Funny how I forget to do that! Encountered my deep, crippling fear that I CAN’T function without food. Praying to have that fear lifted today. I’ll be mostly offline today, lots of...

40 days and 40 nights — Day 4

Aug 13, 2010 | Notes On The Journey

10:38am Pre-dawn prayer session went great — I woke up on time, sprang out of bed and did my practice. And I went right back to sleep afterwards. Feeling really good this morning, my aches and pains are less troubling today. This morning, I whipped up another...

40 days and 40 nights — Day 3

Aug 12, 2010 | Notes On The Journey

8am Well, the morning alert on my blackberry, set as a call to prayer failed to wake me at 4:38 as it was supposed to. I’ll have to come up with an alternative for tomorrow. I got up at 5:08 and did a prayer session. I will not be daunted by doing this less than...

40 days and 40 nights — Day 2

Aug 11, 2010 | Notes On The Journey

8am Well, my low back is really out now. I want to jump ahead, over the pain of it, over the healing of it, right to the lesson — what is this here to teach me? Yeah. Right. Really I want to jump to the pity party that has me dropping this whole ambitious and...

40 days and 40 nights — Day 1, evening

Aug 10, 2010 | Notes On The Journey

I had my first bowl of kitchari at 11:30 this morning. So delicious. This is still the test batch I made yesterday in Grace’s kitchen. I wondered if the spices would grow and develop overnight because it was remarkably tasteless for something with turmeric,...