Food for Thought two, too....

Relationships always go up and down and side to side. At least that is what someone had told me at church. That my relationship with a higher power was only as good, as close, as intimate, as the relationships I had with others. I began to relate that statement to other parts of my life, as it was relatiable to the relationships that I had top to bottom with my boss, my pastor, or the leaders appointed over me, and those whom I considered my peers and my equals.

YUM

Do you remember all the hoopla over the Hostess empire failing? All those people buying all those Twinkies because eventually there would be no more. You would no longer be able to eat Twinkies, and now Twinkies suddenly became important to you, not because you loved them all your life but because they would no longer exist all together. We treat people like Twinkies all the time. Take them for granted because we feel like they will always be there, our friends, our loved ones but if disease or death threaten to take them out of the equation we sudden realize how much we want to be with them, need them, love them.

Our top to bottom relationships are like our food to mouth relationships. We are emotional eaters or emotionally starved. Use food to heal and nurture our bodies, or to abuse them and do them harm. How we relate to others is often a mirror to how we relate to food and the other way around. We either desire to control it, or it controls us. Like every relationship we choose to be in we either submit to it, or dominate it. How we relate to food is how we relate to one another and how we relate to one another is how we relate to food. We top from the bottom, or bottom from the top...