Ezra 8:21 Then I proclaimed a fast there, at the river Ahava, that we might humble ourselves before our God, to seek of him a straight way for us, and for our little ones, and for all our substance.

I recently had a dream in which I was Po from “Kung Fu Panda.” In this dream, Master Oogway said to me, “You must fast from nothing.”

With my mouth full of dumplings, I said, “You mean I don’t have to fast from anything?”

Master Oogway replied, “Fasting from nothing is not the same thing as not fasting from anything.”

To which I said, “Huh?”

Oogway continued, “If you do not fast from anything that amounts to nothing. If you fast from nothing, than everything that remains becomes important. And then… anything is possible.”

When I woke up, I realized that I partake in too much of my life that is nothing, amounts to nothing, or worse still, is less than nothing. It has a negative effect on me or the people around me.

Sometimes in our journey, we seem to cram more and more into our lives. More stuff. More events. More relationships. More everything. Perhaps what we need is to cut back and simply do more improvement to the things that are more important.