Lent: Celebrate

Lent often is associated with foregoing pleasures and some manner of fast -- no meat on Fridays, if you're Catholic; and none on Wednesdays either, if you're a traditional Catholic -- but Sunday is always a day for celebration.

Our lives are rounded out with celebrations, and we mark those celebrations with the food that we eat.

We enter the world to celebration. We drink our mothers' milk while our families feed on meals provided by supportive friends.

Each year we celebrate our lives with cake and choice foods.

We round out our holidays and holy days with the foods that have been selected by our elders. Bitter herbs, corn on the cob and roast turkey.

And when the time comes for us to leave, our loved ones gather around to celebrate our lives with one last feast in our honor.

The life we are given is good, and we celebrate it together with good food, in good abundance. The Hebrew Bible is filled with feasts of Trumpets, tabernacles, first grains and more. The Kingdom of God is a celebration with food, music and dancing, not a joyless and spartan affair.

Fill your plate and raise your glass. Celebrate!


Copyright © 2020 by David Learn. Used with permission.


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