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Jesus spoke to them again in parables, saying: ’The kingdom of heaven is like a king who prepared a wedding banquet for his son. He sent his servants to those who had been invited to the banquet to tell them to come, but they refused to come. Then he sent some more servants and said, “Tell those who have been invited that I have prepared my dinner: My oxen and fattened cattle have been butchered, and everything is ready. Come to the wedding banquet.” But they paid no attention and went off – one to his field, another to his business. The rest seized his servants, mistreated them, and killed them. The king was enraged. He sent his army and destroyed those murderers and burned their city. Then he said to his servants, “The wedding banquet is ready, but those I invited did not deserve to come. So go to the street corners and invite to the banquet anyone you find.” So the servants went out into the streets and gathered all the people they could find, the bad as well as the good, and the wedding hall was filled with guests.’ MATTHEW 22:1–10 (NIV)
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FOOD FOR THE SOUL
“If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.” –JRR Tolkien
At least three times a day, we pause for food. It’s routine, necessary, fun. Food also means a process – planning ahead. Food has to be grown, bought, prepared, and presented. It comes at a cost but there can be a strong sense of fellowship around each step of that process.
Much of the Bible describes events around food – seasonal feasts including the Passover Feast, wedding banquets including the wedding at Cana, feeding the hungry 5,000 and their families, and even a surprise breakfast of bread and fish with the resurrected Jesus on a sandy shore beside the Sea of Galilee.
Take a moment sometimes when you eat to close your eyes and place yourself on that shoreline, sitting in the sand, listening to the lap of water and the sound of oars on wood, smelling roasting fish and flatbreads – with Jesus nearby.
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