FASTING
The best of all medicines are resting and fasting. Benjamin Franklin. FASTING Fasting is better than prayer. St. Clement; Second Epistle to Corinthians. FASTING Surfeit is the father of much fasting. Shakespeare, Measure for Measure, Act I, Scene 2, Line 130. FASTING Dolly Parton credits her family and faith for her force of character. The fourth of 12 children of poor farmer parents in Sevierville, Tennessee, Dolly was raised in the Church of God. Now she says her relationship with the Lord is more “personal” that organized. “But I quote the Bible real good,” she boasts proudly. And instead of psychiatry, Parton turns to fasting, not to diet but for spiritual reasons. “I’ll either fast 7, 14, or 21 days,” she explains, citing the unusual number of sevens in the Bible as her reason. “I don’t drink nothing but water and I don’t ever say when I’m on a fast — Scripture says you’re not supposed to.” Dolly insists she has never made…
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