jesusfast

The Guide

Five short chapters

What the way is, and the four practices that walk it. Read them in order, about an hour altogether, then begin the forty days.

  1. 01The WayWhat Christ consciousness is, what it is not, and why the way Jesus walked is still open to anyone willing to walk it.“I am the way, the truth, and the life.” John 14:68 min
  2. 02FastingWhy Jesus fasted, what the body does when you stop eating, a ladder of fasts from the gentle daily fast to the wilderness forty, and how to do each one safely and well.“When you fast, anoint your head and wash your face.” Matthew 6:1718 min
  3. 03Eating for stillnessA way of eating that makes fasting, prayer, and stillness possible in an ordinary week. Earlier, simpler, less often, and mostly from the table of Galilee.“Isn't life more than food, and the body more than clothing?” Matthew 6:2512 min
  4. 04PrayerHow Jesus prayed and how he said to pray: the Lord's Prayer as a structure for a life, the Jesus Prayer as a breath, the slow reading of lectio divina, and the nightly examen.“Your Father knows what things you need before you ask him.” Matthew 6:813 min
  5. 05StillnessThe solitary place before dawn, where Jesus went before every great thing. How to sit, what to do with thoughts, centering prayer, and what happens when you keep it up.“Be still, and know that I am God.” Psalm 46:1012 min