I'm hungry. Not really hungry - but John has gone to take some stuff to Coventry on the way home & my evening meeting has been cancelled, so I'm waiting for him to get home before we eat. And I've been sitting at the computer too long to concentrate any more just now, so I've got the time to notice that it's dinner time.
But what do I know about real hunger - physical, spiritual or any other sort? And if I've never been starving, then surely I can't appreciate food (physical or spiritual) in anything like the same way as someone who has - c.f. the woman who anointed Jesus' feet in Luke 7. So how do I learn better to appreciate what has been showered upon me? Perhaps be concentrating the mind in other ways - decluttering - and by deliberately working at savouring what I have received.
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thanks for this
hunger is a real issue both personally and more communally
I wonder whether I ever allow myself to really feel hunger to identify and name my needs and to say what it is I need
Sometimes I wonder too what the church might be hungry for in our northern secularised world?
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