"When we gather to eat, God wants to nourish more than our bodies: he wants to nourish our souls with transcendent joy and supernatural community and divine presence. When we feed our physical appetites in community, we open our hearts for God to feed something deeper as well."
~Margaret Feinberg,
Opportunities to "feed our physical appetites in community" abound! We picked up returning colleagues (who also just left their two oldest kids back in their passport country for school) at the airport earlier this week and enjoyed sharing a meal with them that evening.
We made "Crescent Cookies" to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the first moonwalk yesterday. (Although the crescent moons quickly turned into full moons in the hands of kids that wanted those cookies to go in the oven right away.)
This morning we filled up our tummies with my mom's simple recipe for breakfast casserole before we filled the back of the vehicle with sweet and silly grins as we drove to the wharf to deposit a family on a ship.
Tonight, we joined up with another family for their "last supper" and scarfed down what seemed like a million tacos followed by boysenberry ice cream. It's true...when we fill up our tummies together, we also fill up with "transcendent joy and supernatural community and divine presence".
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