Food Prayer

October 9th, 2008

Food is just an excuse to stuff your face. Cram in the goods and let the juice run down your chin. Mustard on your shirt and crumbs in your beard. Put it away. Eat and eat and eat. Stuff yourself to the gills and forget. Forget. Forget what you wanted to forget and forget what? I can’t remember what I wanted to forget.

Food is just an excuse to sit down and share some laughs and some stories with old friends and family. Break bread and partake of community fellowship. Invite a person who lives by themselves to come and share a meal with you. Pass the chicken and who wants seconds? Don’t forget to save room for pie.

Food is just an excuse to get out of the house. Maybe you’ve been alone all week and maybe you’re bored and maybe it’s no one’s business but your own. Stop by the local diner and grab a ham and cheese on rye or a reuben or maybe just a plain cheeseburger. On second thought give me the works. You got any dill relish?

Food is just the excuse we use to butt into other people’s business. Let me help you friend. Let me show you how. Let me educate you about why the food you eat is wrong and what I want you to eat is right. Stop that. Don’t eat that stuff. Don’t you know that’ll kill you? You don’t want to ruin your health do you? What about the freakin’ planet?

Food is the exchange we use when we want to bargain for position in the world. You will act like the great democracy we are or you will not get the food we have way too much of. Stop building the same kind of bombs we have and straighten up. Your people are starving and if you don’t act like us we will not only not talk to you, but we will not give you the food that your people, who have no say in how your country runs, need in order to stay alive. Don’t tell me that’s murder. You’re the one who wouldn’t behave.

Food is what we need to stay alive. Food is what we need to grease the wheels of conversation. Food is what we need to soak up the drink that greases those wheels even more. Food will make us sleepy and food can make us sick and food will get us through. God, I hate food.

I thank God for my life and the lives of my family and friends everyday and I always thank God for the sustenance, the food and drink that keeps me alive and drives the engine in my head. Break bread with me brothers and sisters. We cannot live by bread alone but we cannot live without it either. Amen.

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