This is a conservative formula for the past month. There is often an extra mouth, not to mention the times we've eaten with a friends or family. My immediate family now numbers 14, so you can image the orchestration to just share our two birthday celebrations last month. Check it out:
3 Mouths per meal
3 Meals per day
31 Days per month
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279 meals prepared in the month of March
Not to mention my needful morning coffee routine. Not to mention snacks. Not to mention second breakfasts. Not to mention helping friends. Not to mention...
HEAVENS. There is freedom for me in realizing food is consuming. How could it not be? I'm thinking about food more hours than not. Researching good food (recipes, diets, restrictions). Buying good food (grocery runs, coupon clipping, organizing my way-too-tiny pantry). Eating good food (breakfast, lunch, dinner, and bites in between).
What about you? Or am I just a food addict?
I have been completely committed to two ideas, at different times in my journey:
1. Food is a necessity. Meals are important because creates space for communion together. Thinking too much about food shows you have an eating problem. Being fed is a practical, yet often inconvenient task.
2. Food creates space for worship. Most of the time, I can't NOT think about food. God gave me a body needful of good food. I'm going to worship Him by eating deliberately completely, fully, and well.
Oh, taste and see that the LORD is good! Blessed is the man who takes refuge in him! Psalm 34:8
Could it be that tasting--eating--is a way for us to see how good the Lord is? That it teaches us to take safety in His faithfulness? Can we really worship while feeding our faces? God, give me the heart that eats in a way honoring to You.
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