I mentioned the Canadian Foodgrains Bank yesterday and I got a little booklet from them about 1.5 years ago called "Fast for Change - 7 Days of Food for the Soul" (www.fastforchange.ca). You can request this booklet for yourself, but I've also decided to highlight it in my blog this week. I warn you that these are not easy areas of change - I struggle to find a balance for myself. "Fast for Change" not only challenges us to examine our views of food but other issues of excess in our western society.
Day 1
We owe our existence and our every movement to those carbs, minerals, proteins, cholesterol and chemicals available in the Garden where God placed us. We've never seen so much and so many kinds of food. Scanning the labels, our minds ponder long scientific ingredient lists for the valuable elements of our current mythology. Processed breakfast cereal is an example of how confused and obsessed we are with the multiplicity of information, losing much of our own knowledge of the goodness in whole, natural foods, and gaining a host of artificial colours and sweeteners - and a free toy inside. Are we finding value in our value-added food or simply a full stomach at the cost of taste and nutrition?
Small change? Discuss with your household one whole food item you can add to your menu and abandon the packaged, pre-processed option.
Prayer: God who calls us into an everlasting covenant, give us rich food for our bodies and our souls. Isaiah 55:1-6
The average Canadian consumes more than 2,900 calories per person every day, that's 38% more than the World Health Organization requires for good health.
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