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Thoughts taken from TV, Books and life experiences on various topics and given a Christian slant to stimulate thoughts. The topic here for Day 40 is 'The recipe of Community, Solidarity and Christian Love'.  Uses Food as a symbol of how we relate as a family or community, and concludes with the food shared at Passover.

Bible reading: Luke 22:7-23

There 42 Meditations in the series - Day1 to Day42

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Is it just me or have we gone cooking mad?  As a child, fish fingers and chips seemed to take
forever to prepare and became quite exotic if a tin of peas was added.  Now, people buy recipe
books and actually use them.  Ready, Steady, Cook shows you what you can do in 20 minutes with
an idiosyncratic bag of groceries, as long as you have an experienced chef in your kitchen and
have remembered also to buy cream, butter, herbs, spices, top-quality knives and a full assortment
of the latest kitchen gadgets.  Jamie Oliver crusades against poor-quality school meals and Delia
shows me the right way to boil an egg.  
 
I am also surrounded by adverts encouraging me to buy new types of sauces, puddings, pizzas and
crisps, while also being told that I need to cut down and eat more healthily.  Eating disorders
abound while, at the same time, so much of the world is literally starving.  
 
There is something very important about food that goes beyond it simply providing our bodies with fuel.  Food becomes a focus for ...

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For Introduction and list of all 42 Meditations for Lent and Beyond - Click Here to Download

These Meditations are taken from the book 'Life, The Universe And Everything' by David Wilkinson - Click Here

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