I am currently on the milk diet portion of my weight loss surgery journey so of course I am reading a book about food. The book I am reading is called Tasting Grace by Melissa D’Arabian. This book takes you on a Biblical journey with God about food. I am realizing that I have been viewing food wrong my entire life. Food comforts, it heals, it nourishes, it serves, it satisfies, and it rescues. If you want to know how it does these things then I suggest you read D’Arabian’s amazing book.
Chapter four hit me the most. It talks about letting go and allowing God to get you to the results you are wanting or needing. Want and needing are two different things. I reflected on my journey with food right now. I am wanting to lose weight for the sole purpose of making breathing easier for me at the say so of my doctor and most everyone in my life. They have this belief it will make breathing easier. I’m struggling with believing this, but I also know that I want this result. I also know I need it too. How do I let go and let God get me the result I am wanting? But stepping back and looking at the way I approach food. I have forgotten one of the aspects that I was taught as a child, blessing my food before I eat it. This was not a showy thing, not like how I experienced it as a child in the middle of a crowded restaurant listening to the men in my life preach during their prayer to those around them, but the important part of the praying before a meal is to thank God for it and ask for it to nourish our bodies and bless us.
I enjoyed this book a lot. My eyes were open to the possibilities. I think your eyes will be too.
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