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The other day I found myself in panera, and as I glanced around mid thought, waiting for inspiration to spring from some place in my mind, I caught sight of a portrait on the wall of a person kneading a loaf of bread. It was a rather catalytic moment as ideas I had been throwing around for awhile finally coalesced.
To anyone who can live at least 3 weeks off the food in their kitchen cabinets- welcome to the land of prosperity. the days of bread as a precious commodity are gone, replaced with a pledge to avoid carbs altogether. We are a people characterized by diet, a diet sustained by substantial intake of sugar-free, fat-free, calorie-free cardboard. Despite nice packaging, ingenious marketing, and an appearance indiscernible from an indulgence of choice, the items are still imposters. Manufactured with substitutes, these chemicals are specifically designed to spare you caloric intake as they are unable to be metabolized.
There are hundreds of diets to choose from, all boasting their uniqueness and success. it’s all about what works for you. Heck, if you can’t find something you like, make up your own regimen…and then sell it! and isn’t the whole premise of a diet really a search for satisfaction, obtained with a pseudo-sense of control? cardboard only satisfies for so long. the diet is forsaken; the optimism replaced with a more realistic hopelessness and a bag of doritos.
our diet nation is suffering from a supposed obesity epidemic.
I am more concerned with all the signs of emaciation. We are starving.
As cs lewis said, “we are far too easily pleased.” We gorge ourselves on the blandest things, trying to find satisfaction by staving off inherent needs. you feel unloved, vulnerable, insecure, hopeless. simply put, you are hungry. Eat.
Isaiah 55:1-3a “Come, everyone who thirsts, come to the waters; and he who has no money, come, buy and eat! Come, buy wine and milk without money and without price. Why do you spend your money for that which is not bread, and your labor for that which does not satisfy? Listen diligently to me, and eat what is good, and delight yourselves in rich food. Incline your ear, and come to me; hear, that your soul may live.”
John 6:35 “Jesus said to them, ‘I am the bread of life; whoever comes to me shall not hunger, and whoever believes in me shall never thirst.’”
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