While we’re on food…
We’ve been changing our way of eating. Normally, that would be a good thing, but in our family’s case we’re all going in different directions.
Brown Sugar is learning that there are other food groups besides “sweets.” Today she added omelets to her breakfast fare. Last week she ate her first sandwich. But then she cried over her roasted cauliflower and she tried to hide her grilled chicken under her plate last night. This child will help cut and chop, stir and measure all day long, and she can cook the dickens out of her Play-Doh and felt food, but actually eat what she makes? Perish the thought and the plate it’s served on.
On the other end of the dining spectrum munches Think Tank, who’ll devour everything that sits still long enough, and at least two helpings of it. He eats a peanut butter-and-jelly sandwich as an appetizer and another as his dessert. In between he’ll inhale two or three bowls of spaghetti with meat sauce. I’m trying to figure out where it all goes. Chunky toes, maybe?
Maven, Songbird, TD, and Lone Ranger reside somewhere in the middle of the table, depending on the menu and time of day. Maven, reigning Carbohydrate Queen, can swallow a whole Italian loaf in one sitting, TD discovers his appetite at bedtime, and Songbird takes her name to heart, only eating bits of this and that. Lone Ranger would make my Grandma happy because she loves her leafy veggies. Watch out, collard greens!
Hubby and I want our food to be “less filling” and “taste great” instead of one or the other. We don’t go for paleo, gluten-free, no-carb, low-fat, vegetarian, pescetarian, raw food, or no food. While we love to hop aboard the pizza train on Friday nights, we try not to live to eat, but rather eat to live. It’s all good.
Yet, we need to attend more to what’s feeding our mind and spirit than what’s feeding our bellies. What are we listening to, reading, and watching? Are you more focused on your calorie count or your application of the Word? Does your Bible taste better than your burger? Are you more likely to eat with clean hands than to speak with a clean heart? Is Jesus your main course or merely a side dish?
Most importantly, have you eaten of the Bread of Life?
“Ho! Everyone who thirsts, Come to the waters; And you who have no money, Come, buy and eat. Yes, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price. Why do you spend money for what is not bread, And your wages for what does not satisfy? Listen carefully to Me, and eat what is good, And let your soul delight itself in abundance.” Isaiah 55:1, 2
