Munchy Monday: Here's to Sitting Around...

Please join me every Monday for discussions on food...



Some might refer to look at this evening's events as a disaster: and it was if my entire goal was sales, sales, sales of my own Epicure products as well as those of two other ladies selling Tupperware and Latasia (jewellery - not what some others have thought closely related to Fantasia)...

Fortunately, with only a few in attendance, we attained a more important goal: lounging and listening.

And how is this related to food?  Well, of course there would be tasting at an Epicure party so we lounged, listened, and nibbled...banana chips with mango curry dip, mocha cheese ball and its sister "balle du fromage" of apple, cranberry and cinnamon (my personal fave), and the new hot BLT dip with itsy bitsy loonie-sized crackers that looked almost too cute to be edible.



There seems to be a deep connection between food and fellowship.  In biblical times we often see meals accompanied by companionship and vice versa...in Acts they combined nourishment and dined as a group.

^{Acts 3:42} They devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and to fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer. ⁴³ Everyone was filled with awe at the many wonders and signs performed by the apostles. ⁴⁴ All the believers were together and had everything in common. ⁴⁵ They sold property and possessions to give to anyone who had need. ⁴⁶ Every day they continued to meet together in the temple courts. They broke bread in their homes and ate together with glad and sincere hearts, ⁴⁷ praising God and enjoying the favor of all the people. And the Lord added to their number daily those who were being saved.

It really does make sense: food feeds our physical body and the fellowship is provision for our soul.

 

Andrea Belcham, author of Food and Fellowship:Projects and Recipes to Feed a Community explains that "Our society is privileged in the variety and amount of foods available to those with the money to purchase them. Yet much of what is on the menu – much of what consumers rely on the feed themselves and their loved ones – fails to truly nourish a body, let alone a spirit. Across the nation, people are loading their grocery carts with highly processed foods, or they are tucking into fast food meals, in the name of saving time and making space for the things that “really matter.”

 

Tonight we sat and listened.  In the world of consumerism and productivity we would have been hauled in front of the line supervisor and either suspended or fired.  And yet from a fellowship perspective we excelled...learning so much new about one another, our existences, hurts, truths, happy moments.

 

Tonight we avoided disaster.  We created something much, much more important.

 

Here's to sitting around...