DeYoung describes the vice of Gluttony as our using of food to satisfy our pleasures. It is not necessarily overeating and becoming fat - but rather our desire to use food to satisfy what she calls our "pleasure fix."
Some ways in which I've seen this in my own life is when I used to eat when I was "bored." I had nothing else to do, and would therefore eat. I think that this qualifies as a form of Gluttony.
DeYoung provides an acronym (F.R.E.S.H - fastidious, ravenous, excessive, sumptuous, and hastily), which outlines the different components of gluttony.
Our discipline for Gluttony was to skip lunch today. I actually fast fairly regularly, and so I expanded upon this discipline. I did an 18 hour fast.
I actually do this a few times a week already - usually from 14-16 hours.
This is a discipline which I am becoming better at - but this assignment made me think a little bit differently than usual.
I began to think that I was good at this, but put it in perspective of the other disciplines for the other vices. I was was not very good at them. However, I was not good at fasting at first - it really is a discipline (especialy now during the Lenton season)!
I began to contemplate how I became successful at fasting (through practice) and how I could apply the same concepts to the other vices in my life. I think that this is a very good lesson to learn.
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