We are just hours away from the end of Rice & Beans Month. I was flipping through a magazine the other day filled with luscious photos of pizza, steaks, and ice cream - and needed to wipe the drool off the page a couple times.
I've been thinking a lot about food as "fuel".
Too often I merely see food as "fun" rather than "fuel". We are a society that has been on a steady track toward increasing gluttony - one of the seven deadly sins highlighted by the church for the past several hundred years - and condemned quite often in the Christian scriptures.
I came to a start the other day and realized a pretty sad state of affairs in my own life:
I generally eat what I want to - and eat more than I need
I gain weight because of my gluttony and lack of balance
The money that enables me to eat that food (that I don't need) could be directly used for people that are literally starving to death
So - I choose to get fat at the expense of my brother's and sister's starvation.
Yikes.
It is at those times I realize that I need saved - not just in a nebulous theological philosophical kind of way. My soul needs saved.
It's been another delightful Rice & Beans Month. One that impacts all aspects of my life and that I can truly say "That was worth it!"
My wife and I would like to make some changes in the way we live. Not that life should be purged of feasts, parties, and fun. But we are asking - what if we had a nice big meal once a week - instead of once a day?
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