Vegetables, Sin and Grief

A blog reader after reading a recent posting, asked me if I had become a vegetarian. No, I haven’t but I believe eating vegetables were the key to Daniel’s success and they can be for me as well. That’s why I was so thrilled to have some good home cooking on my recent trip. On Thanksgiving Day alone, I counted 7 vegetables consumed (and no, none of them were sweet potatoes).

An Old Testament word study on the word fat might yield interesting results. It seems to me; not having done an exhaustive study, that fat is often symbolic of sin. If you do the study, let me know what you find out.

All I know is that I have been eating too much fat. Too much fast food and not enough balanced meals and especially not enough fruit and vegetables. I cannot continue to eat on the road just because I don’t feel like going home and eating alone. I’ve got to eat more frequently and better at home AND when I do eat on the road, make better choices. Being heavy as I am and loaded down with fat in my system tends to drag me down emotionally as well as physically. So you can see why I keep talking about vegetables.

There is a wider point to all of this too. And that is, sin, in any form, makes everything more difficult. If I sin in response to my grief, the grieving is prolonged and hurts more deeply. Unfortunately, I have experiencial knowledge that this is true.

So, no sin in response to grief and plenty of vegetables from now on!
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For "Fat" research, see Leviticus 7:22-38 and other O.T. passages