food list
breakfast: oatmeal, frozen blueberries from summer 2011's logan square farmers market, fair trade coffee
lunch: plain baked potato
dinner: vegetarian chili, cream cheese brownies, gluten-free/vegan corn bread, fried lemons (way more delicious than you might imagine), chardonnay, mixed green salad
origin of an item
last summer we were at the logan square farmers market and we came across roeder bros. blueberries and they sell frozen blueberries (grown in michigan!) in 5 lbs and 10 lbs boxes. at the time, i thought we would never use 5 lbs of blueberries (we bought them anyway). on this march morning, however, i'm grateful for these tasty local berries!
reflection
in his book, jesus and the earth, james jones suggests that the "enemy of faith in God is human self-sufficiency" (3). human self-sufficiency (or the belief that we can do anything and everything on our own) might be the enemy of eating too. our consumption of food marks who we are as people (because we are what we eat, of course) and who we are as christians (especially when we believe that jesus' ministry was defined by material consumption). jesus' ministry shows us that not all consumption and use of creation is bad--he responds to the needs of the people by using creation (26). Jesus uses creation to give life--he fed the hungry using fish and bread (out of the sea and out of the ground), he healed a blind man with mud, he taught his followers over meals. jesus uses creation, and its up to us to figure out how we will consume and use creation. its also up to us to see how our consumption affects other people and other parts of creation.
in his book, jesus and the earth, james jones suggests that the "enemy of faith in God is human self-sufficiency" (3). human self-sufficiency (or the belief that we can do anything and everything on our own) might be the enemy of eating too. our consumption of food marks who we are as people (because we are what we eat, of course) and who we are as christians (especially when we believe that jesus' ministry was defined by material consumption). jesus' ministry shows us that not all consumption and use of creation is bad--he responds to the needs of the people by using creation (26). Jesus uses creation to give life--he fed the hungry using fish and bread (out of the sea and out of the ground), he healed a blind man with mud, he taught his followers over meals. jesus uses creation, and its up to us to figure out how we will consume and use creation. its also up to us to see how our consumption affects other people and other parts of creation.
the fact is that we are not ever really and totally self-sufficient. we think that we are, especially when we don't think about where our food comes from, especially when we don't think about the ingredients and the workers and the location connected to our food. i continue to be in awe of God every time i think about how our bodies are so complex that we are fed by a variety of good and delicious things, and that the earth gives us what we need if we respect it. God feeds us if we remember that we cannot rely on ourselves. we need God. we need each other. we need all creation.
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