{ "item_title" : "The Sacred Fast", "item_author" : [" Eliyahu "], "item_description" : "What if fasting is not primarily about going without, but about making room for what matters most?In The Sacred Fast: A Spiritual Journey to Transformation, Eliyahu restores fasting to its deeper purpose: not punishment, spectacle, spiritual ambition, or a contest of endurance, but the deliberate creation of space in which noise quiets, hidden hungers surface, and the human person becomes more attentive to God, conscience, responsibility, and the sacred.Written across traditions, The Sacred Fast draws on historical practice, contemplative experience, comparative religion, ethics, and carefully framed contemporary research. Rather than collapsing different religions into a single spirituality, Eliyahu respects their distinct beliefs while exploring a striking human pattern: across cultures and centuries, people have turned to voluntary restraint to clarify attention, mark sacred time, deepen prayer, cultivate repentance, prepare for difficult decisions, remember suffering, and loosen the grip of appetite.The book begins with the practical foundations of fasting: why people fast, the major forms of the practice, how to prepare, how to conduct a fast wisely, how to break a fast responsibly, and how to navigate physical, emotional, and spiritual challenges. From there, it moves into deeper territory, including community, feasting and restraint, discernment, emotional healing, creativity, mystical practice, ecological responsibility, spiritual struggle, spiritual dryness, global concern, and the possibility of lasting transformation.Along the way, readers encounter a careful discussion of fasting and the body, including metabolism, ketosis, autophagy, time-restricted eating, refeeding risk, psychological effects, and the limits of current evidence. The scientific material is presented with caution, helping readers distinguish established knowledge from promising but incomplete claims.At the center of the book is a more intimate question: What are you really hungry for?Food may be the most visible appetite, but it is rarely the only one. We reach for distraction, approval, certainty, control, entertainment, productivity, comfort, and countless substitutes for stillness. When familiar consolations are set aside, even briefly, they can reveal what we cling to, what we fear, what we avoid, and what kind of person we are becoming.Whether you are approaching fasting for the first time or returning to a long-established spiritual discipline, The Sacred Fast offers a grounded, reflective guide to practicing with purpose. It can be read on its own or as a practical companion to Eliyahu's Jesus Hits Like an Atom Bomb and Before the Trumpet Sounds.This is not a call to become impressed with how much you can endure.It is a call to become attentive.To listen beneath the hunger.To discover what remains when familiar comforts fall silent.To enter the empty place not as a void, but as an invitation.Because sacred fasting is ultimately not about deprivation.It is about transformation.", "item_img_path" : "https://covers1.booksamillion.com/covers/bam/1/96/765/778/1967657785_b.jpg", "price_data" : { "retail_price" : "43.99", "online_price" : "43.99", "our_price" : "43.99", "club_price" : "43.99", "savings_pct" : "0", "savings_amt" : "0.00", "club_savings_pct" : "0", "club_savings_amt" : "0.00", "discount_pct" : "10", "store_price" : "" } }

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