Day 169

WFG focus's on our spiritual relationship with food. We seem to have lost this connection because of our technological pace. Frankly we move to quickly. One-Hundred years ago our lives centered around food, plowing the fields, planting the seeds, weeding, fertilizing, harvesting, storing etc. And then at the end praying thanks for the gift of its nourishment. This was a tough and simple way of life.

Now technology has made food so accessible in the first world, I feel like I am forever fighting the vending machines who are ever present and calling my two children as if these machines were food temples. Imagine if we replaced the vending machines with prayer stations--the aethists would go crazy but I wonder how much it would effect obesity?

I think we should have 3rd world countries filled with vending machines, but the food would be free and of course healthy. That would go a long way to end starvation. I would like to calculate how much all the vending machines could help countries that are starving.

Getting back to the point. The author of WFG is really calling us to see the Eucharist in food. She does not say that. My assumption is that using that word would not be PC. But I will use that word. Food is the doorway to the soul. Food used to be a celebration. Now meals are an inconvienance, an inturruption like going to the restroom. It is another task that we need to get done to get to the next task of the day.

And folks, that is not healthy. Meals are the first place we need to find our souls, our families. Family is what we measure our lives by, especially when we die. Family is the only tangable physical thing (being) we leave behind. Family transcends time in the physical world and meals are the alter, the unifier of the family. Meals are where we are a family. We learn about eachother's days. We help eachother. We teach each other about transformation. We love.