Dreary days ...comfort foods....

Dreary days and comfort food....

Having just been to the Central Valley of Oregon, there are a lot of coffee drinkers over there to get awake ...coffee stands everywhere.  There are here also, with the fall tastes of pumpkin,  pumpkin spice, comfort....

Time to hunker down, macaroni and cheese, soups, stews, crockpots, chocolate.....comfort foods...for those cold days, dreary days...of winter....

All through time, there must be comfort foods, ethnic foods for various cultures...foods that remind us of survival, winter provision, family.....cooked directly over the fire, cooked in big community pots, shared, prepared, dried, gathered..saved In various ways .....

The Bible speaks of various times of comfort foods, hospitality,...the fatted calf...the journey .... Laws of food sacrifices, aromas....that are pleasing....comfort....In the summer we barbecue, the aromas of the cooking foods are pleasing......in the fall and winter, the smell of food In the crockpots, stews, soups, harvest are comfort.......turkeys, hams, roasts breads, pies, cakes, cookies for feasts and pleasure...

God gave food....Jacob wanted tasty food....Joseph saved food for harsher times...the Israelites wanted the food of slavery while in the desert...various people hosted others with foods, comfort...

Or the daily bread provision....

We could even look at the last supper as comfort foods....."remember....return"....that is the Real comfort....

Or even the wedding feast of the Lamb....

Thank You for smells, the provision of comfort foods, but more than that, You as the comfort of Yourself, Your promise of return...Your heavenly feast....

Genesis 1:29
Then God said, “I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food.

Genesis 9:3
Everything that lives and moves about will be food for you. Just as I gave you the green plants, I now give you everything.

Genesis 27:7a
‘Bring me some game and prepare me some tasty food to  eat....

Exodus 16:3
The Israelites said to them, “If only we had died by the Lord’s hand in Egypt! There we sat around pots of meat and ate all the food we wanted, but you have brought us out into this desert to starve this entire assembly to death.”

Numbers 11:4 The rabble with them began to crave other food, and again the Israelites started wailing and said, “If only we had meat to eat! 5 We remember the fish we ate in Egypt at no cost—also the cucumbers, melons, leeks, onions and garlic.

1 Corinthians 11:23 For I received from the Lord what I also passed on to you: The Lord Jesus, on the night he was betrayed, took bread, 24 and when he had given thanks, he broke it and said, “This is my body, which is for you; do this in remembrance of me.” 25 In the same way, after supper he took the cup, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in my blood; do this, whenever you drink it, in remembrance of me.” 26 For whenever you eat this bread and drink this cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death until he comes.