SACRED DELIGHT
בס"ד
13 Tishrei
You know, G@d (or G-d, or Gd, or G*d, or just plain God - whatever you want to call Him/Her/It) is so gracious.
Think about how we get the nutrition for our bodies. I mean, all the vitamins & minerals we need are basically in the soil, but G@d didn't create us so that we'd just eat dirt to sustain ourselves. He could have, but He didn't. He created all sorts of beautiful plants which grow many kinds of gorgeous fruit or vegetables, roots & seeds. I think that G@d , if I may be so bold, really wanted us to enjoy eating, take pleasure in taking sustenance. So He created not only these wondrous delicacies, but wide eyes to enjoy their shapes & colours, a receptive nose to inhale their aromas, responsive fingers to explore their surfaces & interiors & a sensitive tongue to savour their complex textures & flavours. This is one of the ways we connect with The Holy One, by accepting these "extra" gifts. He could have created us in a way that we would have survived sufficiently on handfuls of earth - which would have made sense considering we each are "adam", "Earthling", formed by His hand from the adamah, Earth.
It's random realisations like this which support my confidence that G@d created us with purpose & with care.
Ameyn selah & shavu'ah tov. A good week to all.
posted by Soferet | 7:54:00 p.m.
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2 Comments:
I could be mistaken, but this reads like the Dayenu (sp?), in the sense that it would have been enough to have created us so, but instead you went beyond that, and gave us so, etc etc. A wonderful hymn to God's goodness, Aviel.
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Oh, wow - you're right, Peter. I never even noticed that. Thanks for pointing it out to me %)
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