Fasting...

The second big TREE during Lent Season is about FASTING.
I have wrong conception about Fasting previously. To be honest, I never believe in any kind fasting before.
It's kind like torturing our body, make our body malnourished.
But Lent Reflection from FORMED changed my paradigm about Fasting.

The true meaning about fasting is we sacrifice ourselves, we create small death so that we can have life in Jesus Christ.
Fasting must be out of love, it's form of penance that how much we love God and we want to amend ourselves.
We can do fasting for other's souls too.

When we are really genuine to make sacrifice and our motive is right, God will provide so that our fasting will be meaningful.
Every day He sends the "patients" that need our help to pray and do penance for them because they themselves helpless.

Not only that, when we start our fasting with prayer, God's grace will give us strength to do fasting without making our body's sick or malnourished.
Most of the time I receive answers from my prayer after my daily fasting season ends and it's bringing me joy and peace to see that people are healed from physical sickness, relationship etc.

And another thing is we should feel joy when we trully fast out of love. Because we die for ourselves others and we receive life from Jesus Christ.