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Wednesday, June 18, 2015
You are reading from the book Food for Thought
Homesickness
There are certain foods, which we will always associate with home and which make us nostalgic to recapture the past. No matter how much we eat, we cannot go back home and again be the babies and little children we were. No food will satisfy our longing for the love, care, and safety most of us associate with home. Even (and especially) if our dependency needs were not met when we were young, eating unnecessary food now will not help.
As we grow in relationship with our Higher Power, we begin to believe that home lies ahead, rather than behind us. We begin to see that our homesickness is for a spiritual state instead of a physical place. Wherever we are, we are pilgrims and travelers, not sure of our final destination but drawn toward something more than what we know in this world. We sense that though we are in the world, we are not of it, that we are homesick for a spiritual fulfillment.
May our homesickness bring us closer to You.
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Never thought of it as homesickness. My mother was an awesome cook. One night my mom put spaghetti and meat balls in front of my dad for dinner. My father replied, `What kind of an excuse for a meal is this?` Everything was made from scratch. We had our own cattle, chicken, ducks, pigs, and a hug vegetable garden. We picked wild berries and had our own raspberry and strawberry patches.
Never though of the food being a body memory.