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Thank you Stephen for your post and Albert for your response.
This is something I’ve thought a lot about and I’m grateful that we’ll be discussing it. I look forward to such topics in the future.
If I might ask, is it more about how we view others and less about our actions that makes an impact? Could a brief, sincere smile or a nod in passing be act of bestowal?I know this is a bit of an odd question, but lets say you have an abundance of meat, but there is this other food, potatoes, and you’ve never had this food before, but you’ve seen these meat and potatoes together once before and now all you can think about when you’re eating the meat you’re given is how you might want potatoes too, even though there are no potatoes anywhere close by.
Usually I’d be fine with meat – I’m a carnivore, after all – but lets say that I begin to sense that I have molars – and I do – and I’ve been an herbivore before, but the plants turned on me and I was so burnt that I’ve been eating meat since – now I’m feeling that I want to be an omnivore and fulfill my desire for food in it’s entirely.
I don’t want to do anything that would disturb these basic food groups – I only feel like they would go well together. That having been said, there is an intense hunger that just isn’t being satisfied like it once was anymore. I keep my feelings to myself, smile, and eat what’s on my plate, giving everything I can to just being in the moment and enjoying what I’m given… but the thought of having a full course comes creeping back in all over again.
How should I surrender to my circumstances? How does my fasting please the creator?
