From Bittersweet: Thoughts on Change, Grace and Learning the Hard Way by Shauna Niequist.
I think preparing food and feeding people brings nourishment not only to our bodies but to our spirits. Feeding people is a way of loving them, in the same way that feeding ourselves is a way of honoring our own createdness and fragility.
- Shauna Niequist, Bittersweet
I really wanted to not like this book. (I’ll explain more fully when I finish the book), but I’m just over 30 pages in and I’ve already had tears in my eyes at one point, and found myself saying, “yes” out loud at least once. I’ve said for a couple years, “I show people that I love them by cooking for them,” so this quotation resonated with me!
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funny, I saw that book on Donald Miller’s blog and I was totally turned off of it. I take it I judged too quickly?
@Mitchell – If you like the category “spiritual memoir,” – which I do – it’s good. She’s not as poetic, as say, Anne Lamott – but I like her content more – like I said – it really resonates with me.
i read about it on Donald Miller’s blog and added it to my reading list as well. You will have to let me know what you think after you are done.
I really love cooking for people, too. I’m not sure if my motives are that noble, though. I think that more often than not I just want people to be impressed with how good of a cook I am.
Maybe someday I’ll be more virtuous.
@Zach – me too. i’d like to think that my motives are solely altruistic, but, I’ll admit, there is always a little bit of showing off that gets mixed in!