Life is Bootcamp for Heaven.
Think about that one. It came to me today. I will blog again tomorrow.
Friday, June 18, 2010
Thursday, June 17, 2010
Day 161 Woman Food And God (WF&G)
So 30 days ago I was back. NOT. But this time I really am staying.
I will be blogging about the book WF&G and examining my notes. The book really is not about women but more about how we deal with life and where we run when things become hard or difficult. This is an extremely complex and meditative book.
In the prologue, she says "I believe we are walking talking expressions of our deepest convictions; everything we believe about love, fear transformation in God is revealed in how, when and what we eat". And in the same paragraph "God--however we define him or her--is on our plates".
This is a very Catholic sentiment. What she is saying is that hunger is linked to our coping mechanism. But the hunger is really unease or spiritual discomfort or disquiet. And to calm ourselves we turn to compulsions. It could be gambling, drug addiction, or food in this case. And given the rise in obesity in this country, one could argue that is our national epidemic.
Her point is that God is the window to our "hunger" issues. He is the nourishment we are craving. I suspect some of you may get turned off by that. She does soften it a bit for PC purposes. But I think her point is that God is home. God is the place you can go no matter how bad things are and in God you will find understanding, acceptance and forgiveness.
I will say this. For a long time I felt that I had a hole (hunger) at my core. And I would use food to fill that core (or sink hole) but it always failed to work. This goes back to my childhood as I have discussed in previous blogs. My path was one of self destruction on many levels. Until one day, when I was 15, I said, "no more."
My intention here now is to write about my notes which I made in the book and in so doing discuss the book in a general way. I found the book to be focused on the cause of the complusive unconscious eating and learning how to end that unhealthy way of coping. And this in large part is about one's own spirituality rather than diet x, y or z.
Two thoughts. One...this is very hard but Two, as the author points out, once you practice "The Eating Guidelines" and really take them to heart it becomes easy. Roth does not reveal the guidelines until the end of the book because they are so simple. If you cheat and look at them before you read the whole book you would miss the point of the journey as to how and why they work. So, sorry, but I am not going to tell you what they are yet. The funny thing is, they, the guidelines, remind of my family dinners before my parents split. I guess this is why I love "The Waltons" so much now.
Warning, if you choose to purchase the book, which I highly recommend, be prepared to only read a chapter a day. This book is like eating a 70 oz steak or a huge flourless chocolate wedding cake. My wife made herself sick reading it in two days. It really sends ones mind swirling in thought.
I will be blogging about the book WF&G and examining my notes. The book really is not about women but more about how we deal with life and where we run when things become hard or difficult. This is an extremely complex and meditative book.
In the prologue, she says "I believe we are walking talking expressions of our deepest convictions; everything we believe about love, fear transformation in God is revealed in how, when and what we eat". And in the same paragraph "God--however we define him or her--is on our plates".
This is a very Catholic sentiment. What she is saying is that hunger is linked to our coping mechanism. But the hunger is really unease or spiritual discomfort or disquiet. And to calm ourselves we turn to compulsions. It could be gambling, drug addiction, or food in this case. And given the rise in obesity in this country, one could argue that is our national epidemic.
Her point is that God is the window to our "hunger" issues. He is the nourishment we are craving. I suspect some of you may get turned off by that. She does soften it a bit for PC purposes. But I think her point is that God is home. God is the place you can go no matter how bad things are and in God you will find understanding, acceptance and forgiveness.
I will say this. For a long time I felt that I had a hole (hunger) at my core. And I would use food to fill that core (or sink hole) but it always failed to work. This goes back to my childhood as I have discussed in previous blogs. My path was one of self destruction on many levels. Until one day, when I was 15, I said, "no more."
My intention here now is to write about my notes which I made in the book and in so doing discuss the book in a general way. I found the book to be focused on the cause of the complusive unconscious eating and learning how to end that unhealthy way of coping. And this in large part is about one's own spirituality rather than diet x, y or z.
Two thoughts. One...this is very hard but Two, as the author points out, once you practice "The Eating Guidelines" and really take them to heart it becomes easy. Roth does not reveal the guidelines until the end of the book because they are so simple. If you cheat and look at them before you read the whole book you would miss the point of the journey as to how and why they work. So, sorry, but I am not going to tell you what they are yet. The funny thing is, they, the guidelines, remind of my family dinners before my parents split. I guess this is why I love "The Waltons" so much now.
Warning, if you choose to purchase the book, which I highly recommend, be prepared to only read a chapter a day. This book is like eating a 70 oz steak or a huge flourless chocolate wedding cake. My wife made herself sick reading it in two days. It really sends ones mind swirling in thought.
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