Eating Oatmeal
When I get spiritually unfit I eat oatmeal with brown sugar and milk for
breakfast. It is a monastery reminder of God's aliveness. At the abbey
oatmeal is the featured item each morning for breakfast, the food to
look forward to after lauds. So for me eating oatmeal is a spiritual
discipline. This morning I ate oatmeal ! What is your spiritual food?
posted by Dan Phillips @ 8:46 AM
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5 Comments:
....bread...'and they knew Him in the breaking of the bread,'...bread, a sign of God's wishing to be with us in a supportive, nourishing way...manna that says 'See, my people, I am with you even in this wasteland'...wheat and mixed grains and with a good crisp crust...life is like that, a mix and some hard crusts, too...'those that eat this bread shall never be hungry'.......fullness.....only God supplies this kind of fullness...
.....in a little poor country church, the women come each Thursday to quilt...a support for their church. Each brings a piece of fruit or a jar of canned fruit...this is all mixed and becomes a 'friendship' salad for noon lunch. Sign of unity...each one gives and all are blessed in the abundance that results. '...that they all may be one...'
...cool clear water...Water has so many spiritual overtones... our need for God, as a dying plant in the desert...washing as when He cleanses us from sin...refreshment, as when we are down and need a little lift...tears...as when we are so moved by events, glad or sad,(I cried when our first child was born and wondered why the tears flowed at that happy time).... the deepest feelings rise to the surface to overflow...the providence of God as when the grateful farmer pauses in the field while a much needed sprinkling comes from above...water...like when the Lord promised 'those who believe in Me, shall have, within them, as a fountain flowing to eternal life....
....a little wine for the good of man...as when the grapes die (are crushed) so that the wine made be born, so the gentle Christ has
died so that we may have life...the wine becomes the reminder of the things that must die in order that a greater good may come. Consider selfishness...and greed...and hatred that bursts into war...lust that shows no honor to another...like profanity that shows no honor to God. Sip a little wine and ponder.
....something homemade...maybe soup...maybe corn bread. Who knows what? A something with a lot of love in its preparation...not 'thaw and bake'...not 'quickee instant' food...something that says 'I care about you...'I made this special for you.' When you think of Christ and the bread and wine at the Last Supper, He could have said: "Look...I have loved you so much...I have prepared a feast for you and your inmost self....Come...partake."
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