Day 31: 100 Kisses - Final Reflection

A woman of God. A praying daughter. And an avid faster. Those are three things that I have always been. So it wasn't a surprise to anyone who knows me personally, when I started a spiritual challenge for others to try. What did surprise me.. and even hurt me, was the fact that none of my family or friends were participating. All of them encouraged me from the sidelines but very few of them actually wanted to do it. I was almost defeated by this collective decision. I thought, If my friends aren't doing it, who else is going to do it with me? I remember thinking, Sheesh, they could at least act like they are doing it for a few of the days! And that's when it hit me! I questioned my very intentions. Why am I doing this?! What's the point of my friends faking or half doing it? I had to really stop and reevaluate the reasons why I started the challenge. I could not be upset with my friends for not doing the spiritual chall