To Eat or Not to Eat

When we first arrived here at Sandy Cove we were asked to pick something to fast, and then fast from it for six weeks.  We were supposed to pick something that whenever we thought about it we were supposed to pray or spend time reading the Bible.  Well I decided on desserts along with Meghan and Renee.  You know how girls are, we like our desserts and our Chocolate. I am going to be honest, I didn't really take the fast serious at first.  It was a way for us to connect with each other as a group because three of us were doing the same fast and then the others were teasing us at first.  At the beginning of the six weeks we had kind of decided that to break our fast we would go to the Cheesecake Factory!!! So on the night of our fast I ate a huge piece of the Reese's Peanut Butter Chocolate Cake Cheesecake, and boy was it A-MAZING!!!

Anyway it sounds like I didn't learn a thing during the fast but I really did.  There were so many times were we had to flee from the temptation of having dessert and there were other times were we couldnt flee we had to just deal with the temptation right in front of us.  For example: we baked cupcakes at Camp Sandy Cove, there were two times where we were handing out s'mores, and we were putting out cookies and cakes for different groups.  But the one thing I learned the most happened at the very end.  We were breaking our fast Thursday night and Wednesday night we happened to be up past midnight where it was technically Thursday and technically we could have breaken our fast.  And I was going to do it with a cookie.  But then I thought about it and I decided I didnt want to settle for a lousy cookie from our freezer I wanted to CHOOSE to wait and have the real thing at the Cheesecake Factory.  So basically I learned that dessert doesnt own me/I dont need it I CAN CHOOSE TO EAT IT OR NOT TO EAT IT!!!!!