Recipes that are useful in everyday life
Published Sunday, September 10, 2023 at 3:16 PM
H.I, everyone. Here are some ideas to help you start your weekend.
My wife spent part of last weekend going through cookbooks and organizing them. She piled some up to give out to her friends. A portion was set aside for donation to the library’s book sale. Those with more personal meaning were kept in yet another stack, and I spent hours looking through each of them, as well as the ones here.
I found each child’s handwritten recipes and contributed them to a cookbook project for each of my 5th grade classrooms. We found recipes from each of our grandmothers, great aunts and cousins, and even some with our names on them. I was able to take photos with my phone and send some recipes to old friends. The recipe included one passed down from their late mother.
When I flipped through all those books, I didn’t pay as much attention to the recipes themselves as the posters did. Some long-forgotten recipes bring back the smells and mouth-watering memories of times spent with loved ones, meals enjoyed with long-lost family members, and things you haven’t thought about in years. There were also things that reminded me. Many good memories were all brought about by old recipes from old books.
You don’t have to look twice to know that I love to eat. But what I really enjoy is spending time around the table. Meals are meant to be enjoyed with loved ones. Fellowship meals at our church are highly anticipated because of the time we spend together. And my wife is already making a list of favorite things to make this holiday season for this relative, that niece and nephew, and our daughters.
All the amazing food I’ve eaten over half a century on this earth, all the time spent sitting at the kid’s table before going up to the big table, and all the precious memories that make me smile None of those things is as grand as the thought of gathering around the Lord’s Table, which He has prepared for us. It must be a huge table indeed. Not just because of the number of people gathered around us, but also because all the heavenly food imaginable awaits us.
I know that when the Bible tells us to “taste the goodness of the Lord,” it means the time, relationships, love and mercy He gives us. But as I hold his life’s “cookbook” in my hands, I can’t help but think that this book is filled with recipes for life itself that I need to stir up and share with those I love. I can’t stay.
I look forward to his table. I will go there when I can.
I sit as Jesus’ feet to worship and eat.
What a recipe God has for those who seek taste!
When we look into the face of the Lord, we truly know that “He lives.”
What are you planning to cook this week?
Read God’s Word and check it out. Seriously look into it.
Because the book contains heavenly flesh. And he longs for us to sit down and eat.
To eat the food that God has prepared. So please share his recipe.
Just a thought. later.
Brad Campbell can be reached at mastah.pastah@yahoo.com.