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The Eucharist Diet: Evicting Temptation
By
Mark Herringshaw
January 28, 2010 Day 27 Weight: 198 lbs Weight lost: -8 lbs “Lead me not into temptation…” My friend Mindy – her office is next to mine – just returned from a trip to Israel. The day she flew home she purchased a “gift” for our office, a luxury box of assorted baklava, Heavenly and…
The Eucharist Diet: Two or Three Together
By
Mark Herringshaw
January 26, 2010 Day 25 Weight: 198 lbs Weight lost: -8 lbs Surprised this morning… Down two more pounds! Okay, I’ll take it. And I even had seconds on stir fry and rice for dinner last night… Communion is remarkable, if you really think about it. Often in our church experience with Eucharist we…
The Eucharist Diet: Dissecting Hunger
By
Mark Herringshaw
January 25, 2010 Day 24 Weight: 200 lbs Weight lost: -6 lbs What is hunger? Looking at the horrid pictures of the broken people of Haiti, I’m convinced I do not truly know. “God, teach me to see the emptiness deep in my in order to more eagerly desire you, and to more completely sense your…
The Eucharist Diet: An Unorthodox Leverage of Orthodoxy
By
Mark Herringshaw
January 22, 2010 Day 21 Weight: 199 lbs Weight lost: -7 lbs I’ve fallen below the benchmark threshold of 200 lbs! I think I’ll celebrate with something chocolate… I can’t figure – exactly – how this is happening, except to credit it to my experiment. I’m finding myself no longer ravenous for everything edible. Enough seems…
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