Food

Do you have something in life that you absolutely have to have? something that you can’t live without? something that takes your attention?

One focal area in my life is food. I have a love/hate relationship with food. I know that I need food to stay alive, but I don’t always feel like it is a great use of money to go spend it all on food. It hasn’t really been on my list of prayer requests, but in these past months I’ve seen God’s provision again and again, through generous donations, friends asking me to house sit and eat their perishables, co-workers bringing their food when they go on cleanses, and just the other day, I looked in the back-yard, saw that the garden was ripe for harvest, and there is now an abundant supply of tomatoes and peppers in my freezer. My latest food encounter: baking supplies. I had given an open invitation to a friend to come over for some homemade bread, but baking supplies had never been on my shopping list. The other day, as I was trying to clean up part of the pantry, I was asking about a shelf of food that seemed forgotten, and it turns out it was. Some of the past house dwellers left their baking supplies behind as they went on to seek their future. So I now have FOUR shelves of random baking supplies and non-perishables at my whim and fancy. God has a way of surprising me in ways I least expect. J