Blueberries are perhaps the most delicious of the “superfoods,” foods that are supposed to have extraordinary nutritional value, that are particularly beneficial for your health. Certain activities, like meditation, yoga and prayer, have the same reputation as spiritual “superfoods,” things that are particularly good at nurturing for your spiritual life.
What are your spiritual “superfoods”?
Each year the World Health Organization focuses on a topic for World Health Day—this year is food safety. Which is great. But it would also be great if today each of us thought about any one thing we could do to bring a little bit of health and vibrance to our own lives, or to our community.
What is one thing you do to foster health?
“As my sufferings mounted I soon realized that there were two ways in which I could respond to my situation—either to react with bitterness or seek to transform the suffering into a creative force. I decided to follow the latter course.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.
How have you transformed suffering into a creative force?
Easter celebrates the impossible, but very real, fact that new life happens in the presence of death—that we can be not just changed, but rather re-born in ways that we could not have imagined.
How have you experienced resurrection?
The ritual of the celebration of the Passover Seder involves a number of symbolic items: the matzah, bitter herbs, greenery, a roasted egg, a lamb shank bone and the sweet charoset. Each of these items has a story and a meaning, which is not only spoken of, but also literally taken in through eating.
What foods serve as symbols for you?
