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I think, when we talk
about theology
it's not just something that when we experience
in a book.
It's gotta be something that you know
is like real, that we
can see in our everyday lives
as truth.
and -- for me
transformation occurs at a table when I'm sharing food with somebody.
And I think food changes relationships. It changes people. It heals things.
But it's also... If you look at the way we treat water for example
in baptism it's this healing, cleansing thing that cleans us
but it also destroys.
In hurricanes, and natural disasters and tsumanis and floods.
And I think food is kinda like that too.
It can heal. It can also hurt. In obesity and eating disorders.
If you talk to anyone
I could tell you to pull 10 people off the street and get them to talk about their upbringing
with food
I can guarantee it affects their health to this day.
Whether their mom made them clean their plate at the table or if they were on food stamps
and never had enough to eat
or if they were a complusive dieter even at a young age.
That stuff is real.
And I think God
uses that and speaks through that even in
even in my own experience as a teenage I had a eating disorder and because of that my relationship with food will never
be the same
as it might have been before.
So I think God works throught that.