Comfort Food

At the end of a long, hard day, all we want to do is relax and reach for some comfort food. Elijah says, “Tell me about it!”

John the Baptist would recommend a nifty snack of locusts and wild honey (Mark 1:6). Paul tells Timothy: “... take a little wine for the sake of your stomach and your frequent ailments” (1 Timothy 5:23). Read Leviticus 11 and you’ll have to stop snacking on camel or rock badger. “We’re sorry Edna, but the elder board doesn’t feel theologically comfortable printing your Rock-badger Risotto recipe in the Women’s Mission Society cookbook.”

Unless you buy into one of those whacky “Bible diet” ideas, you rarely chose the Holy Scripture for Bon Appetit-esque food reviews.

Unless you’re Hassidic, you leave the meal inspirations to Rachael Ray and Emeril.

Unless, that is, you are looking for a little comfort food.

Many of us are familiar with one of the most famous stories about Elijah. Haggard and despondent, he escapes to the desert and dives under a “solitary broom tree” to die and, God comes and meets him ...