Eating is a common experience which connects us to each other. Connection is the main ingredient in the recipe for strong community.

The beautiful part about the relationship God set up between us & food is that it shows how our relationship with Him is to look: part of our daily lives, something inevitable that we long for when it’s been too long. God didn’t intend our relationship to be saved for a weekly helping of the Word or worship.

For lack of a non-food verb, I have been marinating in the wonder of the connection between God’s creation and us through food. God’s creation story has always been a part of my faith story. In giving Adam & Eve the Garden, God built in our connection to His creation through food.