“Between the onion and the parsley, therefore, I shall give the summation of my case for paying attention. The Supper of the Lamb: A Culinary Reflection Drive far from us, O Most Bountiful, all creatures of air and darkness cast out the demons that possess us deliver us from the fear of calories and the bondage of nutrition and set us free once more in our own land, where we shall serve Thee as Thou hast blessed us - with the dew of heaven, the fatness of the earth, and plenty of corn and wine. Above all, give us grace to live as true men - to fast till we come to a refreshed sense of what we have and then to dine gratefully on all that comes to hand. Give us pasta with a hundred fillings, and rice in a thousand variations. Take away our fear of fat and make us glad of the oil which ran upon Aaron's beard. Raise up among us stews with more gravy than we have bread to blot it with, and casseroles that put starch and substance in our limp modernity. Restore to us soups that spoons will not sink in, and sauces which are never the same twice. Because at the very worst, all you can be is dead - and for him who is the Resurrection and the Life, that just makes you his cup of tea.”īetween Noon & Three: Romance, Law & the Outrage of Grace
You can fold up spiritually, morally, or intellectually and still be safe. You can fail utterly, therefore, and still live the life of grace. If he refused to condemn you because your works were rotten, he certainly isn't going to flunk you because your faith isn't so hot.
The whole slop-closet full of mildewed performances (which is all you have to offer) is simply your death it is Jesus who is your life.
No matter what happens to you in the course of that trusting - no matter how many waverings you may have, no matter how many suspicions that you have bought a poke with no pig in it, no matter how much heaviness and sadness your lapses, vices, indispositions, and bratty whining may cause you - you believe simply that Somebody Else, by his death and resurrection, has made it all right, and you just say thank you and shut up. And when you have done that, you are living the life of grace.
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