“Have you anything here to eat?”
They gave him a piece of baked fish;
he took it and ate it in front of them.
As I sit down to pen this reflection down, I have skipped my dinner post my evening out patient, I wasnt feeling hungry — a rare occasion in my life! So much so when I walked in and announced to my mother, that I would not be taking my supper, she flinched and asked me 3 times if I was okay! or if I had any issue at work!
Hunger is the most human emotion one can emote .. it affects all species, animals, reptiles and us! We will work for money to buy food or toil to grow our own food and then relish a good meal. While I am grown in a house where food was always a priority, my father had near fixed timings for meals and I never had to question any of it as I too grew into the habit of the same. My day revolves around my meals and I try to avoid messing the time schedule as it gives me some sense of control in my life.
As a resident doctor, I was deprived of this most basic meal due to odd hours of work and patient care came first as a doctor always! It hit me then, how much I can live without food and it didnt affect me that much as I anticipated or my mother described hunger! So when a risen from the dead Lord returns and asks for a meal, it made Him more human than those wounds in my eyes!
Today, we all have abundance of food, healthy, unhealthy, options that I never knew existed, meals which blow my mind and palate away! But there is one hunger we all long for , love! A hunger to be accepted and loved without judgement and questions… a love that we can get from HIM and our pets! The fact that we all as humans just want to be accepted as we are, with our looks, body type, beliefs, faith, color, tastes… and when everyone talks ill about the Pope opening the church for the LGBTQ community, I think we need to give them some love ! cause that is what we all want…
Life has made us cynical and while my state has witnessed some of its first ever communal issues and had police patrolling churches during holy week services, its time we walked in the room full of believers and skeptics and ate a fish or raised a toast to the risen Lord!
Alleluia !
PRAYER:
Today Lord, help me feed those who hunger for companionship and direction, with my words and small deeds! Help me live through your resurection with a renewed faith as I denounced the devil again. Guide me Lord to be your disciple and show me your path!
AMEN
