Hungry.

I read THIS PASSAGE today.  What a motivating, cut straight to the heart and motives passage.  But the part about being blessed when you're ravenously hungry because it is then that you are ready for the Messianic meal... that's the part that jumped out at me today.  Granted, here in the U.S. not many of us are in danger of REALLY being "ravenously hungry."  And certainly I could live off my unused pregnancy stores X4 for quite some time!  But doing the Daniel fast definitely has given me that feeling of never being full... never being completely satisfied.  And it's good.  I feel hungry for Jesus.  For the "Messianic meal."  I wish it didn't take a fast to feel that way.  It's really interesting how this "Jesus thing" really has to be all-encompassing... You can't just have like your home life, your work life, your hobbies and education... and then... over here somewhere... your spiritual life.  I mean I know that's how it's probably practiced most often, especially places like here in the South where it is actually the "in thing" to "go to church" and say stuff like "have a blessed day."  But you can't really be SATISFIED by that.  The Holy Spirit can't let you feel ok with that I don't think.  I don't feel ok with that anyway.