Here we go again. The annual “eating less” season! The fasting, abstinence, no chocolate or coffee, cutting back “maybe this Lent I will finally lose weight” time of the year.
What does eating, or eating less, have to do with following Jesus?
There are lots of stories in the gospels about eating. One of the more powerful ones is in the gospel of Mark, where the evangelist gives us the story of the feeding of the five thousand. Jesus calls on his disciples to do something about other people’s hunger.
There are over one billion people in the world today who do not know whether they will eat on any given day. It is the first time in the history of the human race that such a number of people are food insecure.