Fasting is something more than and different from the Old Testament picture of sorrow and sackcloth and ashes and weeping. It is not a hunger strike, manipulating God to answer your requests.
Fasting is being reminded of your mortality and your dependence on the hand of God.
Fasting is identifying with the poor and hungry.
Fasting is adjusting your priorities, being a thankful recipient of God's gifts instead of a slave to them.
Fasting is a bodily reminder to go to your knees, using the twinges of hunger to prompt you to bring your requests before the throne of God again and again, as the persistent widow.
Fasting is joyously proclaiming that there is something more precious, more essential to you than food. It is declaring that your lifesource is other than that on which the world depends.
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