Do you say a prayer of thanksgiving before you eat? I know Thanksgiving Day is still over four weeks away. That’s still over 4,032 hours. Those are a lot of hours between now and then not to eat. As I was looking at my breakfast this morning I thought I am eating better than a lot of kings and queens did in days past. I have salt for my scrambled eggs, avocado, pineapples in my mango salsa, and a cinnamon roll with raisins on it accompanied by a cup of steaming hot chocolate.
Daily, I have easy access to salt. Once salt was so precious that it was kept in a locked box. The closer one sat to the salt at the dinner table the more important one was. Hence the phrase, “Below the salt,” meaning you were not as important as the others. Wars were fought between Portugal and the Dutch in the 17th century over the Banda Islands in Indonesia for control of the spices cinnamon, nutmeg and mace located there. Cacao from which we get the cocoa for hot chocolate, not to mention avocados and pineapples had to sail through treacherous oceans to get to the European kings and queens.
Now here I sit with my breakfast plate with items most people of days long past could never afford or even have had access. I am grateful. I will say thanks to God for such bounty on just an ordinary day. I feel incredibly blessed whenever I eat. Therefore since I don’t eat just once a year I will say thanks whenever I eat. Oh, and please enjoy your meal!
Always giving thanks to God the Father for everything, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.Ephesians 5:20
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| My Breakfast Plate |
