FOOD, GLORIOUS FOOD …                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 

 How can someone who has given you the most important things in the world refuse you lesser things? This is food for thought. Now, the most important gift with which we have been endowed is ‘God’s own breath’ that is the ‘soul’. Yes, being alive, and not a dead corpse, is a God-given gift.  How often do we thank God for ‘life’ ?

Now to sustain that life we need nourishment, we need food, and water. And God has provided enough food for all the people, for all humanity. This was one of the arguments of Blessed Pope Paul VI, which he officially declared in front of world representatives in an Assembly of the United Nations. God has provided, and keeps providing enough food for all humanity. Famine and starvation is caused by man’s greed and lack of administration.

I hope that everyone realizes that ‘life’ is a treasured gift; that is why we celebrate the birth of a new-born, God’s blessing to the married couple in the form of a babe. Let’s rest assured that once God permitted a new life to exist, He will certainly sustain it. Life is more valuable than bread, but God will never refuse to sustain it.

It’s worth recalling Job’s words, that God has Himself, with His own hands, formed, shaped and given us our body that is more valuable than gold-embroidered garments; therefore He will also, in His kindness give us the lesser gifts, namely the clothing to cover our body. He warns us against allowing concern for temporal blessings received, to cause us distress. It is through HIS Power, and Will that YOU (dear reader) were created; every breath YOU take, every morning YOU wake up, and every moment of every hour, YOU live under His power according to His Will.

Would that we were constantly mindful in our hearts of the still greater blessings which this most generous of Fathers bestows upon us, every heart-beat, lest being forgetful of them we be more anxious than we should about temporal goods, which after all are unimportant. How foolish are those who do not entrust themselves to God with full confidence in this kindest of Fathers.

The ignorant sow and then feel fearful and anxious lest a thief come and steal their grain or fire consume it. Happy are those who sing with the Psalmist: “What return shall I make to the Lord for all that He has given me? (Ps. 115:12) Not only has God, as a good Father, given us life and a body without any worry on our part, this God gives more abundantly than we ask for, or can understand.

Why should we exhaust ourselves for corruptible food when we are fed at the sacred altar of the sweet food of the angels? But the mind is doubtful and full of anxiety about Divine Providence, because ….              IT HAS LITTLE FAITH.