Sterling Terrell

recovering economist

The Provisions We Are Given

The Provisions We Are Given
You ever think about the provisions we are given?

This is another aspect of the religious part of eating.

Of course, there are many metaphors at play here.

  • Bread and wine.
  • Body and blood.
  • Daily provisions from God.
Reminds me of Andrew Peterson saying, “Every breath is a mercy.”

Mostly I am grateful for another day with my family.

“When you eat, I want you to think of God, of the holiness of hands that feed us, of the provision we are given every time we eat. When you eat bread and you drink wine, I want you to think about the body and the blood every time, not just when the bread and wine show up in church, but when they show up anywhere—on a picnic table or a hardwood floor or a beach.”
–Shauna Niequist, Bread And Wine

The Religious Thing About Dinner Time

The Religious Thing About Dinner Time

Is there, or can there be, a religious thing about dinner time?

Some kind of religious aspect of it?

Maybe so.

It is serving and being served.

And it’s returning over and over to something that makes our days possible.

I think it is mostly the relational part of it.

“What’s becoming clearer and clearer to me is that the most sacred moments, the ones in which I feel God’s presence most profoundly, when I feel the goodness of the world most arrestingly, take place at the table. The particular alchemy of celebration and food, of connecting people and serving what I’ve made with my own hands, comes together as more than the sum of their parts. I love the sounds and smells and textures of life at the table, hands passing bowls and forks clinking against plates and bread being torn and the rhythm and energy of feeding and being fed.”

–Shauna Niequist. Bread And Wine

Sterling Terrell