Gathering for Mindful Eating

As we begin the journey of Lent, a season for spiritual reflection and intentionality, Howard Green, Teresa Rylander, and Neil Snipes will invite us to reflect and be intentional about the spirituality of our eating, the how and what we put in our bodies.

As mindfuleating.org tells us, mindfulness is simply the moment-by-moment awareness of life. But it's not always so simple. We get caught in our own thoughts and self-talk that we are scarcely aware of life as it passes us by. This is very true of our eating. We eat meal after meal, snack after snack, barely aware of what we're eating and how much we're consuming.

Mindful eating is an approach that involves bringing one's full attention to the process of eating - to all the tastes, smells, thoughts, and feelings that arise during a meal. When we pay attention to our food---really pay attention---we begin to notice all sorts of wonderful aspects of the food and its relationship with the earth and our bodies.

Our offering will be designated for Bread for the Journey, a not-for-profit organization to whom we've previously given whose vision is to nurture the seed of generosity in every human heart. Our potluck theme is, in Howard's words, "something to savor and linger over as opposed to fuel for the road."

Sunday, March 13, 5:30 pm, 618 Locust Street