Wholesome

Today's message is reflecting on a Wholesome World

Our experience in today’s world is one where we have so much already done for us. We buy our meals already prepared, our meat, veg, fruit, bread are all ready in little packages with extra preservatives to allow for transportation and elongated shelf life. Seasoning and sauces are all lovingly prepared by an automated processing plant somewhere.

Traditionally this was not the case. Animals and crops were reared, raised and harvested, cultivating not only the food on our plates but developing a wholesome relationship and respect for the natural forces at work.

A naturally balanced way of life ensuing gratitude following the process, of raising, harvesting, cleaning and cooking our meals.

Now we have little idea about the food on our plate. Where it comes from? How it has been reared or raised? A detachment from the natural world itself.

If we have removed these basic, human rituals or traditions that connect us with nature and the planet, is it no wonder that people feel isolated, lonely, disconnected and even lack identity?