
Ecclesiastes Part 2 - The Gift
Exploring My Strange Bible
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The Importance of Feasting
Every single passage that we read about being happy and joy involved what two activities eating and drinking by having feasting. Feasting is an image of shalom and well-being in the Scriptures. When we eat, we're just announcing our dependence on others. We pause with others and I remember my smallness, my dependence, my need for other people. It's a short momentary state of just pause and rest, people, food, all as well. In theory you're hungry, you eat, and then what do you experience afterwards? Satisfaction. But when we see like Big Mac as like the thing in life, none of us, that was ridiculous, those ridiculous,
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