Hello! Bread of Life

[Dnznqueen]

Hi Everyone!

Newbie here, and as part of a school assignment, I wanted to share my thoughts on some New Testament reading I did this week. I am relatively new to the Church; I was baptized almost 6 years ago now, and often feel that I have so, so much to learn. 

John 6:35, 58

And Jesus said unto them, I am the bread of life: he that cometh to me shall never hunger; and he that believeth on me shall never thirst.

This is that bread which came down from heaven: not as your fathers did eat manna, and are dead: he that eateth of this bread shall live for ever.

With Christ as the basis of our existence, we cannot go wrong.

I am an admitted “foodie;” I have a love of and interest in anything related to food. Hunger and thirst are signals from our mortal bodies that we are lacking- we need something more in order to survive. Hunger and thirst are the most basic needs that even infants are able to understand and convey. Even though we eat and drink, eventually, we again will become hungry and thirsty.

I enjoy cooking, trying and tasting all kinds of foods, and the thought of never being hungry or thirsty again is intriguing. I think that never having to worry about basic sustenance, or having to have activities in my daily life centered around making sure I am satiated, would be wonderful; I would have so much additional time to devote to being more productive.

Christ’s simple statements let us know that not only are we able to come to Him and alleviate our temporal needs, we can also fully believe and commit to Him, and never have to worry about our basic survival. What Christ has to offer to us, is more than simple sustenance. By following Christ, we will live forever.

Thank you for taking the time to read this- onward, ever onward!

 

[rodheadlee]

Welcome to the board. I decided for every donut I eat I have to do 10 setups. I fractured my pelvis a while back and I am just now healed. I was physically inactive for 4 months so I got a little bit chubby. I love my sweets.

 

[Pyreaux]

A "school assignment"? Home school I'm supposing. My mom converted after she did a school report on the Mormon pioneers. She felt, "people just don't do that for no reason." And started investigating.

Mormon culinary tradition is hard to pin down A mix of Western traditions of hearty meals, seasonal eating and food preservation. Food doesn’t reflect one particular ethnic identity in the “Mormon corridor” from Idaho to Mexico. Young moms with basic homemaking skills just enough to comfort and nourish their family on a budget and take care for all kinds of celebrations and meetings with cookies, casseroles and cakes. In the 1960 America, enthusiastically embraced inexpensive convenience foods like canned fruit, instant potatoes and Jell-O. But then America moved on, while Mormons kept them as staples. With whole grains of hard red wheat stored in 5-gallon buckets, making bread every day common. Eating stored food may have something to do with the stereotype blandness of Mormon food.

Green Jell-O and funeral potatoes. Green Jell-O, a fluffy dessert of whipped cream and crushed pineapple or a salad of mainly carrots folded into lime gelatin, is a constant. Funeral potatoes, a rich casserole of grated potatoes, sour cream, cheese and cream-of-something soup, is delivered to the bereaved or a side dish for ham on Christmas and Easter (Pineapple and cherry baked ham). It tastes like the inside of a baked potato mashed with plenty of sour cream and Cheddar, and it takes only one savory, fluffy forkful to see why the dish is a classic.

During the 2002 Olympics in Salt Lake City, visitors found these dishes so pervasive that souvenir pins shaped like cubes of green Jell-O and casseroles of funeral potatoes became hot sellers.