So, today I am in the kitchen, which makes starting the one-cup-of-rice-a-day regime all the more challenging. I have had 2/3 cup for lunch... and I am still bloody hungry. 1/3 at dinner is not going to cut the mustard, methinks.
For everyone else's lunch I turned out a venison soup, a swede soup and a carrot and coriander soup, and Mike produced ciabatta and white loaves made with a home-made elderflower yeast.
And just as I was adding some left-over rice to the venison soup, a massive glob of rice fell into the pan and splashed hot soup all over my face. And I was instantly very cranky, thinking that I wasn't even going to be eating it.
So this afternoon I will be praying for all those people who prepare things for us, people who grow food, who prepare food, who mine minerals, who make products, who sew fabrics and shoes...
... and who never get to enjoy as much of what they produce as we do.
Father,
thankyou for the richness of the material gifts
and the richness of brothers and sisters
you have given us.
Give us the grace to appreciate them fully
and to share those gifts with each other.
We ask this in Jesus' name.
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