In an ideal world, what would your relationship with food
look like?
This week someone asked me that question. My answer was, in an ideal world, there wouldn't
be food corruptions. People would grow food themselves and eat food the way God
intended it to be eaten--whole and not refined--and not add things to it that
kill organisms. We need the insects, the birds, the dirt, and the work it takes
to eat, but in today's world the "Earth's Garden" has become corrupt.
But since this is the time I live in, and I will have a lifelong relationship
with food and its corruptions, my relationship with food looks like a relationship
with an imperfect person whom I love. If you substitute "be married" or
"my spouse" into this paragraph wherever it says "to eat"
or "food," you will see what I mean:
I love to eat, but
sometimes I have negative feelings towards food. I enjoy making food, but it's
the hardest work I do. I want to eat, but I look forward to the day where there
aren't so many corruptions that make it so difficult. I'm doing my best to make
sure it is helping and not hurting me by keeping healthy boundaries around what
I eat. I'm trying to make sure I'm not eating to compensate for some other loss
in my life. I'm trying to be careful how I treat food, and at the same time
choosing food that gives back to me a healthful, pleasurable, experience that
will lift me up instead of drag me down. I try to remember that even though it's
not always easy making food, it will bring me the most joy in the long term
when I do it right.
That
is an ideal relationship with food.
