禁食之后感想：“奢侈”。。。 Thoughts After Fasting : “Luxury”…
其实禁食，特别是长时间的禁食，并不是一件想要做就能做的事；其实我相信，按肉体来想，没有人会喜欢禁食的。
这一次，在神还没感动我和给我力量禁食40天之前，我无法想象那40天毫无食物的日子，甚至会“怕”上帝会不会再感动我禁食40天。。。
可是时间一到，这些顾虑都是多余的！不知不觉40天早已过去了，我们也已恢复正常的饮食生活。
Actually fasting, especially long period of fasting, is not something you can just do it when you think you want to do it. In fact I believe, by our flesh, nobody likes to fast.
This time, before God convicted me and gave me the strength to fast for 40 days, I could not imagine at all without food for 4o days, and actually I was also kind of “afraid” as to wheher God would convict me to fast for 40 days again…
But when the time came, all these concerns were really unnecessary! Without realizing, 40 days have already gone by, and we have also resumed our normal eating and drinking lifestyle.
我们这一次采取逐渐性的禁法，前面29天还可以喝汤和果汁，最后11天只喝白开水，但很多人过不了最后11天白开水的那一关。。。
就连我自己，最后3天才真正全然白开水，前面几天白开水里偶尔还会加一点葡萄糖补充体力。
This time we took the gradual fast approach, we were still taking soup and juice in the beginning 29 days, only the last 11 days did we take plain water only, but many failed the plain water only for 11 days test…
Even I myself, I only took totally plain water in the last 3 days as I still added some glucose into my water before that to give me some energy.
有时候我们禁食采取只吃素的禁法，就只吃蔬菜和水果，那时就会发现原来吃惯了的肉是何等奢侈。。。
然后我们有时候采取，不只吃素，也禁淀粉之类的食物如：饭、面类、蛋糕和面包等，那时就发现淀粉类食物真是何等奢侈。。。
若全禁食物，就发现蔬菜和水果何等奢侈。。。
只可喝白开水时，又发现汤啦、热饮啦、果汁啦，都是何等奢侈。。。
Sometimes for fasting, we take the vegetarian fast, eating only fruit ad vegetables, during such a time, we would realize the meat we are so used to is such a luxury…
Then sometimes we not only go vegetarian, we stop eating starchy food too like rice, noodles, cakes and bread etc, in times like those, we would realize starchy food is such a luxury…
If we fast all food totally, we would realize fruit and vegetables are such luxury items…
When it is only drinking plain water, we would discover soup, hot drinks and fruit juice are so luxurious…
所谓”奢侈“，是指那些对我们原本很平常的食物饮料，变成我们“得不到”的东西。。。
原来禁食能够让你发现，我们其实是活在何等蒙福及”奢侈“的生活当中啊！我们的“饿”是出于自己自愿的选择，时间过了，马上又可以恢复与享受我们“奢侈”的生活；可是这世界有多少人却是毫无选择的日复一日、年复一年的肚子，毫无终止。。。原来在很多地方，一杯干净的白开水何尝也不是何等奢侈吗？
主啊，让我们不再抱怨生活困苦，让我们学习感恩及享受你给我们的一切。。。
“并且人人吃喝，在他一切劳碌中享福。这也是神的恩赐。”
～ 传道书3:13 ～
The so-called “luxury” is referring to food and drinks that are so ordinary to us normally becoming something we cannot get…
Fasting can indeed make you realize, we are actually living in such a luxurious and blessed life! Our “hunger” is our own voluntary choice, and when the time has passed, we can immediately return to and enjoy our “luxurious” lifestyle, where as there are so many people in this world who do not have a choice but are hungry day after day and year after year without ending… In actual fact, in many places, a glass of clean water is also very luxurious to them!
O lord, help us not to complain about life being tough again, teach us to be grateful and to enjoy all that You have given us…
“That each of them may eat and drink, and find satisfaction in all their toil—this is the gift of God.”
~ Ecclesiastes 3:13 ~
